Political Buzz - Updated: NYT says superdelegate Mast is for Clinton. Mast disagrees.

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Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Updated: NYT says superdelegate Mast is for Clinton. Mast disagrees.

Posted by Niki Sullivan @ 10:31:20 am

Superdelegates, superdelegates, superdelegates.

We ran a story this morning (posted here last night) about Washington state's remaining uncommitted superdelegates and whether their resolve has cracked yet. The answer: No. But one Washington superdelegate has announced support for Obama. (See below.)

But we were puzzled by one bit: The Superdelegate Transparency Project said Sharon Mast is uncommitted. The New York Times says she's a Hillary delegate.

I just got off the phone with Mast. She says she's uncommitted.

"I was surprised when I went to The New York Times site and saw that I was committed," she said. "I have been uncommitted all along in this process."

She said she intends to "remain so until this process completes itself."

I'm always suspicious of passive statements, so I asked how the process will "complete itself." "We have some states left and one more territory," she said.

I asked where she thinks the Times got the idea she was a Clinton supporter: "I have no idea. It doesn't matter. In real life, I know where I'm at, which is uncommitted."

Update: Rep. Rick Larsen just announced on a conference call that he's throwing his superdelegate support to Obama. I know that because I read it on other blogs, which I had to do because I wasn't invited to the conference call.

I rescind my birthday party invitation to Larsen.

Categories: Campaign news, President • 1 comment

COMMENTS:

Comment by murphyfelix @ 11:56 - Thursday, May 8th, 2008

You should have asked her if she feels that her (and other uncommited superdelegates) are hurting the Democrats' chance at the Presidency. Sure seems like they are, and you can't blame Clinton, because she's just holding out hope that the uncommitted's will vote for her. I sure wish they'd make a decision and stop hurting the party just so they can "wait and see what the public desides". Talk about lack of leadership.

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