Barack Obama may have lost West Virginia’s primary on Tuesday, but he won an online “contest” that has yielded him a pair of additional delegates to this summer’s Democratic National Convention.
And that’s got the senator from Illinois personally welcoming a University of Wisconsin student as his latest delegate catch.
Two weeks ago, the president and vice president of College Democrats of America — both convention superdelegates — posted a YouTube video that asked young people to tell them to commit either to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
“Let me tell you, the responses were overwhelming,” said CDA Vice President Awais Khaleel, a UW senior.