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MoveOn, 2 Top Unions Tap Obama

Calif. service workers, NY transit employees had endorsed Edwards

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(Newser) – Barack Obama scored three major endorsements today, winning the support of the liberal activist group MoveOn and two influential unions that had backed John Edwards. MoveOn’s members voted for Obama over Hillary Clinton, 70.4% to 29.6%. The candidate crowed that the group has “demonstrated that real change comes not from the top down, but from the bottom up,” MSNBC reports.

The union nods came from California’s 650,000-member SEIU branch, which has a large Latino contingent, and New York City's Transport Workers Union, which represents bus and subway workers, the New York Times reports. Meanwhile, Bill Richardson has not yet delivered his coveted endorsement, but the ex-candidate will watch the Super Bowl with Bill Clinton.

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., walks outside the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M.,Friday, Feb. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., walks outside the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M.,Friday, Feb. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)   (Associated Press)
Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., right, looks at Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., after they arrived for a Democratic debate at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., right, looks at Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., after they arrived for a Democratic debate at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles Thursday,...   (Associated Press)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during an economic summit in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, Feb. 1, 2008.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during an economic summit in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, Feb. 1, 2008.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)   (Associated Press)
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., center, is interviewed, as he campaigns for Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, at a community gathering at East Los Angeles College in Monterrey Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., center, is interviewed, as he campaigns for Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, at a community gathering at East Los Angeles...   (Associated Press)
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