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Quid Pro Quo: Obama, Clinton Gave $890K to Superdelegates  

Posted Feb 15, 08 1:53 PM CST in Politics    Editor's Choice

(newser) – Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have given $890,000 to campaigns of the 796 superdelegates who could decide the Democratic presidential nomination, a nonpartisan research group says. Such donations “have been a generally reliable predictor of whose side a superdelegate will take,” the report notes. Obama's PAC has given $694,000, including $228,000 to 34 delegates who support him.

Clinton gave $195,000, including $95,000 to 13 nominators who have tapped her. Her camp seized on the report—which noted “it would be unseemly” for candidates to pay voters—quipping of Obama's PAC, “Looks like the hope in Hope Fund was for ‘I hope you endorse me.’” The rebuttal: “The secret that Obama has been a supporter of Democrats across the country has been uncovered.”

Sources Boston Globe, New York Times

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Quid Pro Quo: Obama, Clinton Gave $890K to Superdelegates
UPDATES number of superdelegates and total number of delegates for Democrats; graphic shows cumulative number of delegates allocated to candidates; 2c x 3 1/4 inches; 96.3 mm x 82.6 mm   (Associated Press)
Quid Pro Quo: Obama, Clinton Gave $890K to Superdelegates
In this file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., takes the microphone from former Vice President Walter Mondale, a Minnesota superdelegate, after he introduced...   (Associated Press)
Quid Pro Quo: Obama, Clinton Gave $890K to Superdelegates
With presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in a neck-and-neck race, their campaigns are lobbying Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party insiders known as superdelegates...   (Associated Press)
Quid Pro Quo: Obama, Clinton Gave $890K to Superdelegates
Barack Obama Campaigns Ahead Of Super Tuesday   (Getty Images (by Event) Individuals)
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