We understand that there’s Washington, and there’s D.C. There are plenty of people who live and work in Washington, but not all of them know much about the District. So we’ve all been enjoying reading today’s article from the Post’s David Nakamura, in which he exposed that point through some hilarious interviews with some of D.C.’s Democratic superdelegates. There are 75 at-large superdelegates appointed by DNC Chair Howard Dean; 15 of them live in Washington,…

D.C. Superdelegate Anita Bonds, who is also the chair of the D.C. Democratic Party, formally announced on Tuesday that she will vote for Sen. Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in August. D.C. Wire reported on Bonds’ decision first, and Bonds has since issued a formal statement on the matter. (CORRECTION: The City Paper’s Mike DeBonis, aka Loose Lips, was actually the first to report on the Bonds story). In my role as the…

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…