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Obama Picks up Maryland Democratic Superdelegate
Saturday, May 17, 2008
-- WA****NGTON _ Sen. Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of a
Maryland superdelegate Saturday, inching closer to securing the
Democratic presidential nomination.
Greg Pecoraro, a city council member in Westminster, Md., praised Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, but called Obama "the right leader for our
time."
"I strongly believe that Senator Obama offers us the best op****tunity
we have had for many years to turn away from the politics of division
and despair, and look toward an America of op****tunity and progress,"
Pecoraro said in a statement released by the Obama campaign.
The pickup brings Obama's delegate total to 1,905 to Clinton's 1,719.
The number needed to secure the nomination is 2,026.
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