Jennifer McClellan, a member of the House of Delegates, said she won't make up her mind until all of the Democratic state conventions and caucuses are over."It's not clear to me because people aren't finished voting," said McClellan, of Richmond. In an interview Tuesday, she at times referred to herself as uncommitted. Finally, she described herself as a Clinton delegate who reserves the right to change her mind.
UPDATE: You can sign the petition here.
She also opposes any formal process for forcing superdelegates to decide the nomination before the August convention.Already, she has received "well over 100 calls" from Clinton and Obama, from their celebrity spouses, and from proxies within both campaigns in recent months. The Clintons beseech her to stay put; Obama exhorts her to switch....
Five of Virginia's 16 superdelegates never have endorsed any candidate. A sixth, state chairman C. Richard Cranwell, was a John Edwards superdelegate who became uncommitted after Edwards left the race.
Cranwell remained uncommitted on Tuesday, but saw no harm in the petition. "Everybody's got a right to a point of view," Cranwell said. The rough-and-tumble would only toughen the eventual nominee to take on McCain, he said.
Sen. Jim Webb, through his office, also refused to take sides Tuesday....
And the Clinton supers aren't taking this lightly (as we already know):
That galled Clinton superdelegate Susan Swecker, who rocketed a reply back to Rousselot and Surovell and, for good measure, copied in the pro-Obama Democratic blog Raising Kaine, which first reported the petition on Monday."...If that is your premise, then please encourage Congressman Rick Boucher (whose 9th Congressional District went overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton) to switch his support from Obama to Clinton," she wrote.
Well, that's not the only premise. Since Clinton's chance of winning the nomination is close to nil at this point, allowing the party to unify behind the voter's choice (rather than continuing to attack him using McCain's talking points) become more and more important with each passing day.