The Undecided Superdelegates

Both Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns are aggressively lobbying uncommitted superdelegates today, cherry-picking the most favorable trends from the North Carolina and Indiana races to argue for their candidate. Clinton is meeting today in D.C. with undecided supers.

Here in North Carolina, as already noted, eight out of the state’s 19 superdelegates remain uncommitted. Two of those superdelegates have not yet been chosen; they will be named at the state party’s convention next month.

The other six undecided N.C. superdelegates are:

Congressman Bob Etheridge
Congressman Brad Miller
Congressman Mike McIntyre
DNC member Carol Peterson
DNC member Muriel Offerman
DNC member David Parker

Etheridge and Miller have no plans to endorse today, Media General’s Sean Mussenden reports. But Miller appears to be leaning toward Obama. “In four weeks, if Sen. Obama ends the contest with a 150 or 160 delegate lead and Sen. Clinton ends up as the nominee, Sen. Obama’s supporters will not think that it ended fairly. I think that will be a hard breach to heal,” Miller told Mussenden. And Under the Dome cites more evidence of Miller’s true preference.

Offerman, meanwhile, said she intends to wait a little longer. The Obama campaign called her today in the wake of Obama’s big North Carolina victory last night, but Offerman said she is not quite ready to make up her mind. She said she was “very impressed” by Obama’s showing yesterday, but she told Trail Mix, “I’m still thinking of letting the primary season run before I make a final decision.”

“The charge for superdelegates is that we consider what’s good for the country as well as our state,” Offerman continued. “And we haven’t heard from all the primaries, and who knows what’s going to happen in Michigan and Florida?”

Offerman would not say who she personally voted for in the primary — although she did let on that she didn’t vote for Mike Gravel.