Obama's Big Endorsement

Obama picked up a nice endorsement today, Janet Napolitano, the governor of Arizona. Picking up a woman governor in a major February 5 state is a big boost for Obama, coming just a day after the Kerry announcement. If you look at the Feb 5 map, more could come. There are Democratic governors of Tennessee, Montana, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Minnesota. Massachusetts and Illinois vote that day and their governors are already with Obama. New York and Delaware go that day and their governors are with Clinton. Kansas's Katherine Sebelius won't endorse. If Obama can break into the new western Democratic governors--Schweitzer of Montana, Carson of Oklahoma, Ritter of Colorado and Bill Richardson of New Mexico. This could be prime pickings for Obama and could give him claim to a purple region of the country that will be fiercely contested come the fall. I don;t know what will happen on Feb 5 or if the endorsements even matter that much but Hillary losing an important woman governor is not good for her.