Clinton has early, commanding delegate lead for nomination

“The best way to win support from superdelegates is to win support from voters”, said Tad Devine, a senior adviser to the Sanders campaign and a longtime expert on the Democrats’ nominating process.

An Associated Press survey of the state’s 15 superdelegates shows all but two are backing the former secretary of state for president. She is seeking the party’s nomination over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and two planned to support former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley; 210 were uncommitted.

Fifty-four percent of them said they were paying a lot of attention to the campaign, compared with 38 percent of Clinton’s backers. Former state House Rep. Boyd Brown is an O’Malley supporter.

Superdelegates may support the candidate of their choice at the convention, regardless of what happens in the primaries and caucuses.

Her lead reflects Clinton’s advantage among the Democratic Party establishment, an edge that has helped the 2016 front-runner build a massive campaign organization, hire top staff and win coveted local endorsements.

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Several IN superdelegates cited Clinton’s experience as a reason they supported her. Democratic-leaning independents prefer him over her, 50-38 percent.

Deb Haaland, chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, said the grassroots organizing in New Mexico has been impressive so far.

Republicans have long denounced Obama and other Democrats for waging a “war on coal” – a charge Clinton seems unlikely to escape.

“The Republicans are out of touch with where families are”, Peters said.

Clinton’s plan – which will cost about $30 billion, according to her campaign – would ensure retirees in coal communities receive the benefits they were promised and the assistance they need, improve the infrastructure and government resources in coal communities, and it would provide grants to stimulate private investment.

“I met her in 1988 when she was the chair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and was very impressed with her then”, Rosenblum wrote in an email to The Associated Press.

And a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out Friday finds that Democrats at large prefer Clinton to Sanders by wide margins. “To achieve a more just society, many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed through greater economic and social democracy so that ordinary Americans can participate in the many decisions that affect our lives”.

“I’m happy to see it looks like we’re going to have a real primary, and I think that’s helpful in getting people interested in the election”, he said.