You forgot the additional pledged delegate out of the Nevada convention. The split ended up 14-11 (Obama), which is basically +1 O, -1 Clinton.

Mark Parkinson, btw, is one of the reasons why I think Kathleen Sebelius would be such a great VP choice: She has so much crossover-support, she convinced the former head of the Kansas GOP to run on her ticket.

The article doesn't mention that Frederico Pena served in the Clinton cabinet as Sec. Energy, Between Hazel O'Leary and Bill Richardson...He was scapegoated over the Chinese spy scandal though, so probably never felt much loyalty.

Correct. Pena was appointed Secof Transportation under Clinton and was then thrown under the bus by the Clintons. He is not only endorsing Obama but also will serve as Obama's National Campaign Co-chair. At risk at sounding like Rev Wright, this sounds like Clinton chickens coming home to roost.

There is one other aspect to this that Obama's supporters -- I am not one -- need to think about. Obama's campaign rhetoric about rejecting the "old politics," and "fighting the special interests" has been working for him in this election cycle, but it isn't reflected in his record either in Illinois or in Washington. His record is that of a fairly conventional Chicago reform liberal, able to bring people of differing views together on legislation that they did not consider life and death issues but not a major player on any of the big stuff. I don't know if Obama believes himself all the talk of his being a new kind of transformational leader -- actually, I suspect he does -- but in his real life he's never actually been one before. If anything, he's shown himself to be somewhat comfortable with the "old politics" of balancing organized interest groups and making incremental progress on a small number of issues in which he takes a personal interest. A lot of his supporters right now are projecting onto Obama's almost-blank screen, imagining that he will do the things they believe they would do in his place. They are likely to be disappointed.

Erudition from another site but worth reading if you have a Kool Aid habit.

Eric, Greg, Josh:

In the interest of fair and civil discussion, please do one of the following: (1) fix the comment system so it's possible to respond to "Present"; or (2) delete his account.

First: Good on both Clinton and Obama. They both have fought hard and that needs acknowledgement. The delegate system does just that.

Second: Especially in the Democratic Party, folk fall into love with their candidate. It is the nature of the type of folk that are registered Democrats. We tend to focus our passions on the person our passion has chosen. We react strongly upon perceived attacks against those who have won our hearts.

All of us here need to recognize the sanctity of others rights to believe as they chose, their duty as Citizens to express those thoughts, opinions and emotion AND our obligation to allow them the space to to do so unfettered.

People who abuse those rights intentionally may find their ideas marginalized but their right to express should never be abridged. Just as we individually and and those we agree with deserve to be heard.

I recognize that folk exist whose nature lead them to act contrarian or antagonistic. They will go beyond the boundries of what others, their society, finds acceptable. Their ability to be jack_holes means that our right to be civil has been protected.

In short, God suffers the assholes. As long as they do not violate us, we should too.