Today is going to be a busy day of Super Delegate action. As Slinkerwink has already written, Rep. Bruce Braley of Iowa endorsed Barack Obama today.
Perhaps in response to the news that Obama is planning a multiple SD roll-out today, Clinton quickly announced her own Super Delegate endorsement - Bill George, President of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO.
There will be more, as suggested by ABC News and Robert Gibbs from the Obama camp on Morning Joe this morning. So - I've set up a running thread that I will update with the news as it comes in. If you hear any tips, please put them in the comments below and I'll be sure to update the thread.
On a related note, Claire McCaskill says most of her Senate colleagues are pro-Obama, but just waiting for primaries to end before saying so. Verrrry interesting. More news to come.
UPDATE 1: Thank you Michael! Rep. Baron Hill (IN) to endorse Obama tonight at his Bloomington rally.
UPDATE 2: Not the one we wanted - apparently Chelsea's campaigning on Puerto Rico has paid off: she just earned her mom another Super Delegate, Luisette Cabanas. By the way, I like Ambinder's reporting, but why is he using the Clinton-invented phrase "automatic delegates?"
UPDATE 3: Rep. Lois Capps of CA (longtime ties to Clintons) comes out for the O-Man! Note the symbolic importance: she is co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues and chair of the Democratic Women’s Working Group.
"Barack Obama is the better choice because of something larger and perhaps more important. Simply put, he has made a call to the better angels of our nature. He is challenging us to lift ourselves out of the ugliness that increasingly consumes Washington, where the heat of your argument counts for more than the light it should bring," Capps said in a statement. "He is asking us to stand together as Americans and transcend the traditional lines that have so often divided us by party affiliation, economic status, gender, or race."
In her statement, Capps praised Clinton, but also suggested she’d been pushed to Obama by negative aspects of Clinton’s campaign.
"I came to Washington 10 years ago after winning the seat my husband Walter held. In office for a mere 10 months before he died, he had lost none of the idealism and faith in American democracy that propelled his life. Quite frankly, I don’t believe he ever would have and I know that I have tried to keep that fire burning. But I’ll admit it’s hard, when so much of what’s going on around you is less about meeting our country’s challenges and more about demonizing your political opponents," she said in the statement.
"Walter once said that ‘we are strongest as people when we are directed by that which unites us, rather than giving into the fears, suspicions, innuendos and paranoias that divide.’ For years I have been waiting for a President that speaks to that vision. I believe Barack Obama may very well be that rare leader."
SCORE OF THE DAY SO FAR:
Obama 3
Clinton 2
Notice a trend? All three super delegates for Obama are elected officials. Both for Clinton are un-elected.
p.s. in other news, saw this from The Page - Hillary Clinton apparently tells Bill O'Leilly that "Obama made his views clear (on Wright) - finally" and then took it upon herself to denounce him too. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit