Obama Picks Up Four More Delegates From California

Just when you thought you were reading solid delegate counts in the 2008 Democratic nomination battle you find out you haven’t: it now turns out that Senator Barack Obama has picked up an additional four delegates, according to TMP Election Central:

We’ve just confirmed with the California Democratic Party that reports in the blogosphere, which said that Barack Obama picked up additional delegates from the vote count in California, are correct.

….To put this in perspective, over one-million votes were yet to be counted when the media estimates were first made. Those estimates had Hillary at 207 delegates to Obama’s 163. The new projection: A small alteration to Hillary 203, Obama 167, which Mulholland said is not expected to change when the election is officially certified this Saturday.

The betting is this is due to the extremely heavy use of mail-in ballots in California. In any event, in this close a race this news must leave the Obama campaign smiling and the Clinton campaign more than ever determined to work on the upcoming races — and Superdelegates.