Congressional endorsements for the
2008 United States presidential
election
Candidate
Party
Senate
Endorsements
House
Endorsements
Total
Barack Obama
Democratic
46
188
233
Hillary Clinton
Democratic
0
28
28
John McCain
Republican
16
29
45
Chuck Baldwin
Constitution
0
1
1
This article lists the endorsements made by
members of the 110th United States Con-
gress for candidates for their party’s nomina-
tions in the 2008 United States presidential
election. All of the Democratic members of
Congress are also superdelegates to their
party’s presidential nominating convention,
except for those from Florida and Michigan.
For further details of superdelegates and
their voting intentions see List of Democratic
Party (United States) superdelegates, 2008.
This page lists congressional endorsements,
which are distinct from superdelegates’ in-
tentions to vote.
Candidates for the US
2008 presidential elec-
tion who have congres-
sional endorsements
List of current Senators
List of current
Representatives
Past Candidates
Democratic
Joe Biden
• Sen. Thomas Carper (DE)
Chris Dodd
• Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA) (Obama)
• Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT) (Obama)
• Rep. Chris Murphy (CT) (Obama)
• Rep. Tim Ryan (OH) (Clinton)
John Edwards
• Rep. Bruce Braley (IA) (Obama)
• Rep. G.K. Butterfield (NC) (Obama)
• Rep. Bob Etheridge (NC)
• Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (SD)
(Obama)
• Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (TX) (Obama)
• Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) (Obama)
• Rep. Mike McIntyre (NC)
• Rep. Mike Michaud (ME)
• Rep. Brad Miller (NC) (Obama)
• Rep. Jim Oberstar (MN) (Obama)
• Rep. Dave Obey (WI) (Obama)
• Rep. David Price (NC) (Obama)
• Rep. Heath Shuler (NC) (Clinton)
• Rep. Bart Stupak (MI)
• Rep. Mel Watt (NC) (Obama)
Bill Richardson
• Sen. Jeff Bingaman (NM) (Obama)
• Rep. Mike Doyle (PA)
• Rep. Gene Green (TX) (Clinton)
• Rep. Solomon Ortiz (TX) (Clinton)
• Rep. Ed Pastor (AZ) (Clinton)
• Rep. Silvestre Reyes (TX) (Clinton)
• Rep. Tom Udall (NM)
Republican
Rudy Giuliani
• Sen. David Vitter (LA)
• Sen. Norm Coleman (MN) (McCain)
• Sen. Kit Bond (M