Thanks to one of those lovely little quirks in Iowa’s delegate selection process, Barack Obama has picked up an additional 14 delegates in the Hawkeye State:
CHICAGO — On a day when Sen. Barack Obama picked up more pledged delegates in Iowa and California, the senator from Illinois told a crowd in suburban Indianapolis on Saturday that it is time to turn away from the “forces of division,” and to choose instead “a different path that says: We have different stories, but we have common dreams and common hopes.”
The escalating bitterness in the Democratic presidential campaign provided a tart subtext to Obama’s speech before about 3,200 people in Plainfield, Ind.
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Obama gained eight of the 14 delegates won in the Jan. 3 caucuses by former senator John Edwards, who has since dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, along with one won by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to the Obama campaign. Caucus-night projections showed Obama getting 16 delegates and Clinton 15.
With the other six Edwards delegates standing firm, Obama’s camp claimed 25 delegates from Iowa, compared with 14 for Clinton. The Associated Press reported late Saturday that, in final counts from California’s Feb. 5 primary, Clinton picked up two more pledged delegates and Obama gained five.
The math is looking worse and worse by the day for Camp Clinton.
