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Saturday 14 November 2015
Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa superdelegates support Clinton
AUDREY McAVOY has the stamina. She’s got Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledges supporters after filing
Associated Press what it takes to be presi-
HONOLULU (AP) — Hillary dent,” Hirono said. papers to be on the Nation’s earliest presidential primary ballot at The Secretary of State’s office
Rodham Clinton has se- Superdelegates are del-
cured the support of many egates to the Democratic in Concord, N.H. Clinton has locked up public support from half of the Democratic insiders who
Democratic Party leaders National Convention who
in Hawaii and U.S. Pacific can support the candidate cast ballots at the party’s national convention, giving her a commanding advantage over her
island territories as she pur- of their choice, regardless
sues her party’s nomination of what happens in the rivals for the party’s presidential nomination. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
for president. primaries and caucuses.
An Associated Press survey They are members of Con- land Gov. Martin O’Malley; Hirono, said they support- Three of five Guam super-
shows Clinton has the sup- gress and other elected 210 were uncommitted. ed Clinton. Three were delegates said they sup-
port of half of the superdel- officials, party leaders and Five of Hawaii’s nine su- uncommitted while one ported Clinton and two
egates to next year’s Dem- members of the Demo- perdelegates, including didn’t respond. didn’t respond.q
ocratic National Conven- cratic National Commit-
tion from Hawaii, Guam tee. Superdelegates make
and American Samoa. up about 30 percent of the
Other superdelegates said 2,382 delegates needed
they were not ready to de- to clinch the Democratic
clare their support for any nomination.
candidate and some did The AP surveyed all 712
not respond. Democratic Party super-
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono of delegates over the last
Hawaii said Clinton cares two weeks, hearing back
about issues that people from more than 80 per-
care about, including col- cent of them. Of those, 359
lege affordability, raising planned to support Clin-
the minimum wage and ton, eight planned to sup-
comprehensive immigra- port Vermont Sen. Bernie
tion reform. Sanders and two planned
“She has the brains, she to support former Mary-
Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard to be set free after 30 years
ERIC TUCKER a three-decade diplomat- Although the decision that arrangement, or was “In terms of the quantity
Associated Press ic burr in the relationship from the U.S. Parole Com- intended as a concession of stuff he gave away and
WASHINGTON (AP) — between the two allies. mission came around to Israel. the classification and the
Jonathan Pollard, the Pollard, 61, had been serv- the same time as a sharp The release, scheduled for damage to relations, it
Navy intelligence analyst ing a life sentence, but disagreement between next Friday, caps a case certainly was a significant
whose 1985 arrest for sell- was granted parole this the U.S. and the Israeli that divided public opin- case,” said Jeffrey Richel-
ing secrets to Israel set off year under sentencing governments over a nu- ion in Israel and America son, a senior fellow at the
a sensational spy saga, is rules in place at the time of clear deal with Iran, offi- and has been a periodic National Security Archive
scheduled to be released his prosecution that made cials from both countries source of legal and diplo- at George Washington
from federal prison next him presumptively eligible have denied the release matic wrangling between University who has written
week, marking the end of for release this month. was in any way tied to the two countries. on Pollard.q
