cnn is reporting that "Most uncommitted senators to endorse Obama" by the end of the week:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Most of the seventeen Democratic senators who have remained uncommitted throughout the primaries will endorse Barack Obama for president this week, CNN has learned.

Sources familiar with discussions between Obama supporters and these senators tell CNN's Gloria Borger that the senators will wait until after the South Dakota and Montana primaries to announce their support for Obama.

Two sources familiar with the sessions said the endorsements will come sometime later this week.

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i will soon be deleting this diary. the "news" that prompted this diary was wrong. much of the assumptions that underlined the diary were wrong. i will wait a bit for comments to play out, but the information used to write this diary has been corrected (thanks to steve for pointing it out). i'd have done this sooner if the server hadn't been worked on...

let me say from the outset that things are going mostly smoothly here in indiana.  so the problems that i'll discuss stand out as exceptions.  they are memorable because they are so rare.  but who's interested in good news?

i'm doing election protection in indiana.  in our minority precincts, precincts where we expected some hassles for low-income voters because of the severe id restrictions, we have stationed non-credentialed "poll watchers" outside those precincts to act as voter contact for those with problems and the obama campaign.  i have more than a dozen locations (some with multiple precincts) that i'm overseeing -- and things are tremendously slow.  sure, we have had some voters who have had issues, but all the ones who have come to the obama 'watchers' have been resolved quickly and without issue.  iow, everyone has gotten to vote.

per usual, the most common problem is wrong polling location.  in my area, we've had two voters who swore that they were registered only to discover that they aren't.  one of those intended to vote for barack; the other declined to state a preference (but used our "services" anyway).

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   We've seen similar diary titles before. But they usually involve the psycho right. A Christian Right minister resigning his position in a mega-church due to acts that contradict his faith (translation, I slept with another man). A conservative Catholic Archbishop proclaims that he won't give communion to pro-choice politicians, thereby violating several aspects of the Catholic Faith.

  Those are just two examples. Now, unfortunately, it has hit home....in what could turn out to be a devastating hit to Barack Obama's hopes of securing the Presidential nomination. I am an outspoken (on this site and Dailykos) Obama supporter, for the record.

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friday night was spectacular.  the largest crowd ever for a presidential candidate this cycle.  the enthusiasm and motivation unmatched by any other campaign.  but the philadelphia speech was just the beginning of my night.

we had another barack event to set up -- his whistle stop in wynnewood, pa.

the r-5 back to wynnewood was packed almost entirely of people returning from the barack speech.  so there was a lot of enthusiasm and buzz in the air.  when the train stopped to let people off, it took minutes (seemed like forever) before the train moved again.  when we finally got back to wynnewood, the office -- and parking lot -- was packed.  a huge meeting in preparation for saturday's visit was going on.  the kids were supposed to be at this meeting -- i don't see how, since it started 20 minutes after the train was supposed to leave philadelphia -- but we really only arrived at it's tail end.

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