Wed May 14, 10:37 PM Pacific • posted by Jed Lewison
Where do Edwards delegates go?
Avi ZenilmanBen Smith and Democratic Convention Watch take a look at what happens with the Edwards delegates.
The short version is that 16 Edwards delegates have already been named. He's slated to get another 3 in Iowa, but now that he has officially ended his campaign, Edwards' Iowa co-chair is urging that state convention delegates there support Obama, so it's possible that Obama will pick up those 3 instead of Edwards.
Technically, the 16 pledged Edwards delegates are now free agents, effectively superdelegates. (The total could go up to 19 depending on what happens in Iowa.) Since the pledged were selected by the Edwards campaign, and the Edwards campaign apparatus is urging its delegates to unify behind Barack Obama, I suspect they will mostly be loyal, but there's no absolute guarantees.