Obama started off the day with a whale. Joe Andrew, whom Bill Clinton appointed as Democratic National Committee chairman in 1999 and who supported Hillary Clinton on the day she announced her candidacy, switched his allegiance to Obama.
Besides the net gain of two SDs for Obama, Andrew's flight is further proof of Clinton's decaying support from within. Bill Richardson and Robert Reich (who is not an SD), two other Clinton stalwarts turned off by her negatives and attracted by Obama's message, began what now seems a building trickle of defections.
Clinton followed with Connecticut AFL-CIO President John Olsen.
Not to be outdone, Obama rolled out Texas AFL-CIO Vice President John Patrick.
But Clinton is the winner on the day so far with four SDs coming from today's New York state convention: NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, former Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, NY Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and NY Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo.
Obama hasn't lost a daily SD count to Clinton since Super Tuesday, so it will be interesting to see if he rolls out a couple more to even the tally. Obama is expected to pick up three SDs from Illinois by next week, but we won't count those chickens just yet.
UPDATED TOTALS
Superdelegates: Clinton 272, Obama 249
Pledged delegates: Obama 1,490, Clinton 1,334
Overall delegates: 1,739, Clinton 1,606
Since Pennsylvania: Obama 12, Clinton 10
Since Super Tuesday: Obama 79, Clinton 12
Note: Delegate totals from MSNBC.com's First Read
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