[You'll note that I deleted the head BREAKING when it was, in fact, no longer breaking. Wish more diarists did that.]
Passing this on, for what it's worth. It's just one superdelegate, but still noteworthy.
Here's the excerpted Newsday/AP story, below. Or read the whole thing here.
Newsday.com
N.J. superdelegate for Clinton now undecided
By JEFFREY GOLD
Recent remarks by Hillary Clinton and former President Clinton prompted one of New Jersey's superdelegates to reconsider her support of the former first lady and move to an undecided status.
Clinton still retains a commanding lead among the state's so-called Democratic superdelegates _ members of Congress and other party leaders who are not selected in primaries and caucuses and who are free to change their minds about whom they support.
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Democratic superdelegate Christine "Roz" Samuels of Montclair said she changed her preference for Hillary Clinton after the former president's comments about Obama's stance on the Iraq war, and after Hillary Clinton's comments about Martin Luther King.
"I'm disappointed in a few things that were said a few weeks ago by President Clinton," she said. "I'm going to have to revisit what I'm going to do between now and when we vote."
Bill Clinton called Obama's celebrated opposition to the Iraq war "a fairy tale," suggesting that while Obama had spoken out against the war in 2002 while he was an Illinois state senator, Obama had moderated his anti-war stance during his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign.
In January, Hillary Clinton commented that Martin Luther King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Samuels, a member of the Democratic National Committee and the executive committee of the state NAACP, also said she was troubled by Hillary Clinton's comments that Martin Luther King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
And she questioned how Hillary Clinton's eyes welled up before last month's New Hampshire primary. "I am female, and I know we can cry at the drop of the hat," she said, "but that was a bit much."
"I just have to weigh this a little more closely," said Samuels, who works as a secretary to a school principal in Newark.
A tipping point? An outlyer? I dunno, but I do find it gives the lie to the notion that "committed" superdelegates are solidly in the bag for either candidate.
Opinionate away!
Added thought: Please note that she did not switch allegiances; she has NOT committed to Obama, but instead will join Rep. Rush Holt, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Philip D. Murphy (finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee) and Donald Norcross in the Uncommitted delegation from the state. I find that curious--of course, it means there'll be another story when she does decide. But I wonder what this portends.