The District’s two shadow senators, Michael Brown and Paul Strauss, have both announced their endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama. The endorsements are actually quite significant because both senators are also two of the 22 superdelegates the city will send to the Democratic National Convention this summer in Denver.

“We feel strongly that we should use our vote to uphold the will of the people who by decisive margins chose Barack Obama in contests across the country and by our region’s voters in the Potomac Primaries,” Strauss said in a statement.

D.C.’s delegation technically has more superdelegates than regular ones, due to the large number of At-Large DNC members who actually live in D.C.: the 39 total delegates are made up of 22 superdelegates, two add-on party leader elected official delegates, and then 15 pledged delegates split up proportionally based on our primary election results (the AP reports 10 are going to Obama and three to Clinton, so we’re not sure where those last two delegates are).

With these latest announcements factored in, we’ve posted a breakdown of how the automatic delegates have said they’ll be voting after the jump (thanks to Shadow Senator Paul Strauss for the details).

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