Superdelegate Holdouts Prepare to Make Choices

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ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
06-04-2008
Superdelegate Holdouts Prepare to Make Choices

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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.

On the day after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, his colleagues in the Senate were straining to pull their party together. Hillary Clinton's supporters on Capitol Hill moved more quickly than she has to acknowledge Obama's victory.

But as NPR's David Welna reports, they also argued for giving Clinton more time to come to terms with ...

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