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Listening To Ohio's Uncommitted Superdelegates
Below is the most recent on the record news about what the eight remaining Ohio uncommitted superdelegates are saying about their thoughts on Obama vs Clinton. Where there are quotes, the link is to the relevant article.
Some neutral Democrats, such as Reps. Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Mike Michaud (Maine), Gene Taylor (Miss.) and Gabrielle Giffords (Ariz.) said they would pick a candidate based in part on how that candidate stood on issues such as trade, defense and immigration.
Kaptur and Michaud are members of a coalition of Democratic lawmakers concerned about trade and manufacturing jobs that has held talks with Clinton and Obama.
No news on his stand in the presidential race found in recent weeks.
No news on his stand in the presidential race found in recent weeks.
U.S. Rep. Zack Space, uncommitted superdelegate, says he'll stay on the sidelines a little longer in the Democratic presidential race.
And the freshman congressman from Dover told MSNBC's Chris Matthews last night that he doesn't think he should even be allowed on the field come 2012.
Space said he thinks Democrats should do away with superdelegates, which he called undemocratic-with-a-small-d.
As for hanging back a full two months after casting his vote in Ohio's March 4 primary, Space said he'll gladly support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the fall and doesn't want people to question his fervor should that nominee end up being the candidate he hadn't endorsed.
He might like his choices in November, but he faces a difficult one now. Space can either endorse the candidate who won two-thirds of the vote in his congressional district (Clinton), or he can endorse the candidate who's much more likely to win the nomination (Obama).
The morning after Sen. Barack Obama won a decisive victory in the North Carolina primary and Sen. Hillary Clinton narrowly defeated Obama in Indiana's primary, Sen. Sherrod Brown is still undecided about who he'll support.
Brown, a Democrat from Lorain in northern Ohio, is among the last remaining super delegates who have not endorsed a candidate. He's the highest ranking super delegate in Ohio to remain uncommitted.
"I will probably not endorse until the primary's are over in early June," Brown said this morning.
Ohio Sate Rep. Joyce Beatty, the House minority leader, has been contacted "multiple times" by Michelle Obama, former President Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and others, said her spokesman Phil Faken.
"She wants to let the process run its course," he said.
"It's about the numbers, and the numbers are the numbers," Ohio Democratic Party chairman Chris Redfern told the New York Times today. "It's not about hand-wringing. And Senator Obama has the lead," said Redfern, an uncommitted superdelegate.
No news on his stand in the presidential race found in recent weeks.
