Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Endorsing Obama
Barack Obama is set to pick up the endorsement of freshman Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) tomorrow, the Wall St. Journal reports. Klobuchar's home state already voted back on Super Tuesday, giving Obama a 2-1 victory in its caucuses.
By our count, this now makes Obama tied with Hillary Clinton for endorsements from their fellow Senators, at 14 supporters each.
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Comments (51)
Coolio. I like to see my Senator doing things I approve of. Go Amy!
Sounds like the entire NC House contingent is going Obama? I'll believe it when I see it, but that would be very cool.
March 30, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, Amy! She's my senator too!
The writing's on the wall....
March 30, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch.
Ouch x 7 "Democratic House members are poised to endorse Sen. Obama as a group -- just one has so far -- before that state's May 6 primary, several Democrats say."
March 30, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the entire NC Democratic Delegation, too!
The superdelegate rush has officially begun, and they're heading Obama's way.
March 30, 2008 10:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
*gasp*
Not ANOTHER senatorial endorsement of Obama, surely??
And how many has Clinton received lately?
March 30, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
The point is that Obama is just now catching up. It is Hillary who is the leader in endorsements from Senators!! So take that!
March 30, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
So take that!
Ouch!!! You hurt my feelings...
No wonder your avatar represents the La La land.
March 30, 2008 11:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to mention the six uncommitted NC Reps who plan to endorse Obama before the primary. Dare I hope that this is the beginning of the end?
March 30, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I told'ya...
I guess the train is finally leaving the station?
March 30, 2008 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Smile smile smile.
I think this has to be the beginning of the end, coupled with the financial news.
There are going to be some depressed Clinton supporters and some really angry ones.
I hate to sound sappy, but eventually, we've got to do something to get us to pull together or no Democrat can win in November.
March 30, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unfortunately, Minnesota doesn't count. Otherwise this would be a good pick up. Sucks for Minnesota.
March 30, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Time consolidate the victory, then let the healing begin. We've got a lot of work to do as a party before November rolls around.
March 30, 2008 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Too early to begin counting chickens, but it is a good sign.
March 30, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. Any talk of 'consolidating the victory' will only exasperate Hillary crowd.
No talk of the obvious but let Hillary run her business and keep the endorsements rolling- it will have a definite effect on the PA primary.
BTW- I'm glad a female Senator endorsed Obama- that will curb the "all boys club," crap.
March 30, 2008 11:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wasn't suggesting that Obama give a "consolidate the victory" speech. I was merely noting that there is still work to be done in consolidating the nomination, but that the larger focus should start to turn to the party healing its internal wounds and taking aim at the GOP. Is "I told'ya" a softer way to put it?
March 31, 2008 12:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nice start to the week.
March 30, 2008 11:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of NC, at my campus voter registration drive is starting next week.
March 30, 2008 11:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Minnesota has already voted; therefore, this endorsement is insignificant.
North Carolina does not vote for five more weeks; therefore, those six impending endorsements are insignificant."
Marc Penn, everybody, Marc Penn!! He's here all week!!
March 30, 2008 11:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
These Senators like to vote with the gop for corporate interests and his unity covers them.
"Krugman On Mortgage Plans: Obama "Cautious," Clinton "Bold And Progressive":
All in all, the candidates' positions on the mortgage crisis tell the same tale as their positions on health care: a tale that is seriously at odds with the way they're often portrayed. ...
Mrs. Clinton, we're assured by sources right and left, tortures puppies and eats babies. But her policy proposals continue to be surprisingly bold and progressive.
Finally, Mr. Obama is widely portrayed, not least by himself, as a transformational figure who will usher in a new era. But his actual policy proposals, though liberal, tend to be cautious and relatively orthodox."
Brilliant. That is what I am talking about. This guy is smart bashing the trickle down theory.
Pay attention.
March 30, 2008 11:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
getalife, have you read the Fox News expose of Clinton's campaign manager Williams' seven year relationship to the ninth largest sub-prime malefactor? The word is that, in particular, that company targeted minority borrowers in New York City and Philadelphia.
Darn, just when the Taylor Marshians started to love and link to Fox News.
March 31, 2008 7:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
March 30, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Firstly, I definitely think it's a little early to start talk of a superdelegate wave rushing to Obama. But it's also a very good sign.
I must disagree with Publicola. Perhaps this endorsement isn't on the same level as, say, Richardson's was, but it counts. Every single superdelegate endorsement counts, no matter how small. At the end of the day, it comes down to the votes, and each superdelegate is worth a single vote. So despite influence not being a major point here, it doesn't invalidate it.
I have to say I'm just glad to see more and more superdelegates going for Obama. If this trend continues, then perhaps the wave will begin. But for now, I'll stay cautious.
March 30, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, but Minnesota and anybody connected with it doesn't count. It has all those white people who went to college. The main reason it doesn't count, though, is that polls show Obama would beat McCain there while Hillary wouldn't. Which means that it couldn't possibly be a "big" state, which by definition Hillary always wins. Except for Texas, which doesn't count because they had caucuses, which were attended by lots of black people ....
March 30, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Turn off the lights ,the party is over.Then again the fat lady is gearing-up to start belting out 'em tunes.A just reward for for a reckless campaign by the Clintons.
March 30, 2008 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amy's going to be a star. The first good candidate for statewide office MN has had in a long time...
March 30, 2008 11:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, hey, let's not overlook Al Franken! And he's going to need the netroots' help to make it past Coleman. Once Obama's the nominee let's also focus some attention and funds on these key Congressional races!
March 31, 2008 12:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed.
It's time to show John Kline the door.
March 31, 2008 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hear hear!
March 31, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
No talk of the obvious but let Hillary run her business and keep the endorsements rolling- it will have a definite effect on the PA primary.
I think you're right - that's really the sane attitude to have.
March 30, 2008 11:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
And I wonder what will happen after Maggie Williams story being part of the board of a bankrupt lender company...
This is another news which will distract Senator Clinton, not to mention that she has to release her tax returns...
So it is not looking good for HRC...
March 30, 2008 11:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, but we all know that Minnesota doesn't count. Also, endorsements by people with names which begin with "A" don't count. Can't you people keep up with this stuff? Does Mark Penn need to send another memo?
March 30, 2008 11:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go Amy! Her recent comments have made it fairly clear this was coming, but I still did a little happy dance. I continue to be quite proud of her. Now if we could just get rid of that jackass Coleman...
March 30, 2008 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I still have much respect for Paul Krugman, but I honestly don't even bother to read him these days whenever he touches on HRC vs. Obama...he's lost all credibility with me in that department.
March 30, 2008 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you, Amy!
This action makes me even more proud to have voted for her in 2006. The Minnesota turnout on Super Tuesday was astronomical, with cars backed up for miles trying to get to polling places. It would have been a tough time indeed trying to defend overturning the votes of 66% of Minnesota Democrats.
March 31, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
It matters not that Minnesota has already voted. A Senator's endorsement is a Senator's endorsement and both candidates are after all they can get. She is an SD after all. The N.C. House Reps are also great and will help in N.C. I hope others follow. If there is a flood of SDs going to Obama, that could be what is needed for Hillary to bow out. Regardless of her rhetoric, there will come a point where she will look very foolish and pathetic if she doesn't concede. Despite everything, I assume she wants to hang on to a shred of dignity. After all, she will be returning to the Senate.
March 31, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Xargaw says:
"Regardless of her rhetoric, there will come a point where she will look very foolish and pathetic if she doesn't concede."
You mean we aren't there yet?
Can it actually get worse?
Someone needs to save this poor woman from herself.
March 31, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
No endorsement is insignificant in the wake of threats to the future financial viability of the Democratic Party. Everyone coming forward now is saying that grass roots money and support is more important than traditional monied influence. This IS the movement people. This is what different government looks like. Telling the money to shove it. In the wake of the Clinton supporters letter to Pelosi, this can be viewed no other way. And, as we see, the movement this weekend has been fron Junior Senators. Everybody who hasn't had the "hope boiled out of them yet".
March 31, 2008 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
A-my! A-my! A-my! A-my!
I caught her rally at St. Louis Park HS when Obama came to campaign for her, back in '06. The lines were staggeringly long. If memory serves, they needed an overflow room. And Obama electrified the crowd.
Oh, and Minnesota's other Senator's name ought to be "Quimby" from now until November. (Simpsons, anyone?) And it fits - they're both pompous skirt-chasing hounds.
March 31, 2008 1:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
For all of your California readers of TPM, Sen. Boxer and Feinstein are in Clinton's hip pocket(book). Maybe if you could register your outrage over their lapse in judgement, especially Sen. Feinstein who has been in lock-step on her record of poor decisionmaking begining with her "yea" vote to support giving George W. Bush authorization to start the Iraq War, all the way through her endorsement of AG Michael Mukasey through the Judiciary Committee (and now we see the results of that poor choice) and the warrantless wirtapping and secret surveillance. Way to go DiFi!!! And Boxer-lady, what's up with your choice? Given the close spread of the popular vote in California, especially when you consider most of the Edwards supporters would have voted for Obama, Boxer should support Barack Obama, making it an 50-50 split, just like the popular vote Babs.
March 31, 2008 2:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maggie works for a mega loan corrupt mortage lender, the Clintons aren't paying their bills to the little guy vendors they are supposedly stumping so hard for...when are voters going to stop voting against their own interests?
I need humor...
March 31, 2008 3:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
As I understand it, Obama leads Clinton by 15 to 12 Senators (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)_superdelegates,_2008). Even if that already includes Klobuchar and Casey, he was already ahead before them.
It's also interesting that Bill Richardson and Nancy Pelosi are still counted as uncommitted in the superdelegate count, but it's hardly a secret in whose camp they will wind up. I wonder how the uncommitted break down in that regard, i.e. how many are also fairly obviously in one camp or the other. Anybody know of any existing breakdown for this.
March 31, 2008 5:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Donors fleeing after the unpaid bills news
Supers fleeing after "civil war" noise
Soon, voters flee.
Will she drop out on a high note after PA?
March 31, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with much what has said above, but would add that Senator Klobuchar's endorsement is significant that as one of Senator Clinton's fellow woman senators, it is impossible for this endorsement to be dismissed as yet another member of the "old boys club" trying to push HRC out of the race.
If Senator Clinton chooses to stay in this race, than is it too much to ask that she focus her attacks on McSame than Senator Obama?
March 31, 2008 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, another reason why Minnesota shouldn't count is that our baseball team plays in a lame domed stadium. By time of the 2012 presidential election, however, such endorsements will count because the Twins will be in their new outdoor stadium.
March 31, 2008 9:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Folks: Just a reminder that today is the last day to make a donation to the Obama campaign that will show up in the next fundraising report. Since we all know Hillary is in big financial trouble - not paying her bills, running out of the money given to her by the big power brokers - it would be a great help to show the superdelegates how much more support Barack has - and remind them that it's mostly from us little folks.
I just made another $25 donation. Even $5 would be great. Let's show the party who's got the real power - so everyone can compare the financial health of the two campaigns before PA or NC.
March 31, 2008 9:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
clinton: $2.5 million raised, 12 hours left to go to raise and reach $3 million. 31,000 donors this drive.
just sent off another $25. the more you bitch, the more we give! have a good one!
March 31, 2008 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Before the California primary Boxer put out statements that she was going to vote for the winner of the California primary.
She also said she would not endorse any candidate while Clinton and Obama were still in the race.
March 31, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
THe US Senate's going to be a misery for Mrs. Clinton
March 31, 2008 10:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just goes to show once again: sane people support Obama.
March 31, 2008 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
How long will "BILLARY" endure this Chinese Torture?
http://OsiSpeaks.com
March 31, 2008 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
$2.5 million raised, 12 hours left to go to raise and reach $3 million. 31,000 donors this drive.
well done, hillary supporters!
March 31, 2008 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink