Reps. Capps, Braley endorse Obama

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) picked up two more congressional superdelegates Wednesday.

Reps. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) and Lois Capps (D-Calif.) said they were drawn to Obama's message of unity in announcing their endorsements.

{mosads}Braley, a freshman House member, also noted the excitement Obama generated among voters when he won the Iowa caucuses.

“In this same spirit, I believe there's one candidate for president who has the ability to unite our country and bring about the change we need,” he said in a statement.

Capps, a six-term congresswoman and chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Working Group, said that she's backing Obama because “he has made a call to the better angels of our nature.”

Capps acknowledged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as someone who would make “a great president” and whose election would fulfill “a life-long dream” for those who have fought for women's rights. But she said that Obama's message of unity won her over.

“He is challenging us to lift ourselves out of the ugliness that increasingly consumes Washington, where the heat of your argument counts for more than the light it should bring,” Capps said in a statement. “He is asking us to stand together as Americans and transcend the traditional lines that have so often divided us by party affiliation, economic status, gender or race.”

Obama is poised to receive another House Democrat’s support later on Wednesday; Rep. Baron Hill is set to endorse him, according to the Bloomington (Ind.) Herald-Times.

Clinton on Wednesday picked up two superdelegates: Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Bill George and Democratic National Committee member Luisette Cabanas of Puerto Rico.