Friday, February 15, 2008

Bill Clinton kingmaker quits Hillary, backs Obama

Portrait of an imploding campaign....

An on-the-ropes Hillary Clinton has suffered another blow, with a key strategist who helped put her husband in the White House revealing he is backing Barack Obama for president.

David Wilhelm, national manager of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and a former Democrat National Committee chairman, yesterday endorsed senator Obama, who is vying to be the first African-American US president.

"The only reason this race appears to be closer than it actually is is the number of superdelegates (Democratic Party officials and former leaders) that bought into senator Clinton's inevitability early.

"Too early, it seems," Mr Wilhelm, himself a superdelegate, said.


And also this: Black Superdelegates Shift to Obama

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