May 2, 2008 - 08:18
News: Maryland

Today's superdelegate duel: Gage, Sweeney rollouts?

This morning, Barack Obama rolled out an endorsement from Paul Kirk, his second superdelegate who is a former Democratic National Committee chairman in as many days.

Also notable was yesterday’s announcement of John Olsen, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, backing Hillary Clinton. On Wednesday, she received the endorsement of Pennsylvania AFL-CIO head Bill George.

Those two have left us wondering if Clinton will up the ante today by pulling a few other labor leaders out of her hat – particularly Maryland superdelegates John Sweeney, president of the national AFL-CIO, or John Gage, president of American Federation of Government Employees.

Clinton currently leads Obama among Maryland superdelegates by a margin of 10:5, with 14 unknown – two of whom we will find out tomorrow at the state Central Committee’s biannual meeting.

As for pledged delegates, another 29 will be picked tomorrow as well.

Wally Edge can be reached via email at noreply@politicker.com.

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