from an article by Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times Staff Write | 9:21 AM PDT, March 28, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today called on Hillary Rodham Clinton to drop out of the presidential race, saying there is no way the New York senator can wrest the nomination from her rival Barack Obama."There is no way that Sen. Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination," Leahy, an Obama supporter, said in an interview with Vermont Public Radio this morning. "She ought to withdraw, and she ought to be backing Sen. Obama."
Leahy was the first prominent superdelegate to call on the New York senator to withdraw, but his comments came on the same day that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged superdelegates to make their preferences public.
"There's 800 of them, and 450 have already said who they're for," Dean said on CBS' "Early Show." "I'd like the other 350 to say who they're for..."
Obama picked up a new endorsement today from an unexpected source: Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who had earlier said he would stay neutral until Pennsylvania's April 22 primary."In a time of danger around the world and division here at home, Barack Obama can lead us.... He can help us heal America," Casey said at a rally at the University of Pittsburgh. Referring to the blistering campaign by Clinton, Casey said that Obama was tough, "especially under fire," and that the Illinois senator "has the kind of judgment that is steady in the eye of the storm. He's the kind of leader who's ready to be commander in chief."
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