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Obama Gains Support of 21 Superdelegates

HeadlineMay 12, 2008

In other campaign news, Senator Barack Obama has gained the support of twenty-one superdelegates since last Tuesday’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana.
For the first time in the campaign, Obama now has more superdelegates than Sen. Hillary Clinton. During a campaign fundraiser in New York, Clinton vowed to stay in the race.

Sen. Hillary Clinton: “What I hear and what I see is all about how we’re going to finish this nominating contest, which we will do. Then we will have a nominee, and we will have a unified Democratic Party, and we will stand together, and we will defeat John McCain in November and go on to the White House.”

Meanwhile, Barack Obama campaigned in Oregon on Saturday.

Sen. Barack Obama: “My faith in the American people has been vindicated, because everywhere I go, people are standing up, and they are saying, we are ready for change, we want something new, we want to turn the page, we want to write a new chapter in American history, and now, Oregon, it is your turn. It is your turn to go ahead and stand up and say it’s time for a change.”

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