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Article: Obama's lead impresses super-delegates
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- March 17, 2008
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The Illinois Senator's fragile advantage expanded as the party in
Iowa and California apportioned the delegates that will go to the
summer convention that chooses the candidate.
The usual razzamatazz of the convention, usually a coronation of
a presumptive nominee, is threatening to be replaced by grubby
wheeling and dealing for the support of the so-called "super-
delegates". These are the great and the good of the party, who can
support either candidate and who hold the balance of power after
votes in state after state have failed to give a clear lead to
either side. Mrs Clinton has made a not-so-subtle pitch for their
support by promising to offer the vice-presidential nomination to
the ...