Superdelegate Ted Strickland (Update: And the Firmness of Superdelegate Numbers)

Yes, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland is one of those “Democratic” superdelegates.

He is on this January 9 list of superdelegates committed to Mrs. Clinton.

He endorsed Hillary Clinton in November of last year. He has been very outspoken in his support of her since then.

Is Governor Strickland’s commitment to Hillary irrevocable? Is he going to stick with Mrs. Clinton even if (much more likely when, and in a big way) she loses the March 4 Ohio Presidential Primary to the candidate I often refer to as BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama)?

What will the fallout be, especially inside the state Democratic Party, if he hangs in for Hillary in the face of Obamamentum?

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UPDATE: This link looks to have a pretty current list, and indicates that the true list of “superdels” won’t be absolutely official until March 1, the filing deadline for each state party chair to submit their list. But if you go to the link, you’ll see that the definition of who can be a superdel is pretty clear.

The only other committed Ohio superdel I see on the list is Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who has declared for Hillary. Hmmm. I would not be surprised if she’s rethinking that endorsement right about now.

UPDATE 2: Which leads to this thought — I suspect that if superdels are allowed to change their preference even after they have publicly endorsed (and I don’t see why they couldn’t), Ms. Tubbs Jones isn’t the only one doing a rethink. I suspect that in the final analysis, the superdels will mostly go with the flow — the flow being how voters in their native states cast their ballots.

UPDATE 3: Interesting bit of trivia — Hillary, her husband, and Obama are superdelegates who have, of course, already declared.

UPDATE 4: Among others, comparing results thus far to the superdel endorsements list, it would appear that superdels who have endorsed Hillary in MD (Obama by 23%), GA (35%), WA (35% in a caucus), and MN (34% in a caucus) are on less-than-defensible ground. UPDATE 4A, Feb. 14: Well, whaddaya know. Georgia’s John Lewis has switched from Hillary to BOOHOO, saying “that as a superdelegate, he could not go against the wishes of the voters of his district, who overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama.”