<p>"WASHINGTON (CNN) – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president, two Democratic sources tell CNN.</p>
<p>The 1.4-million Teamsters union will endorse Sen. Barack Obama, sources tell CNN.</p>
<p>The 1.4 million-member Teamsters union is the third labor organization to throw its support behind the senator from Illinois in less than a week."</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama is poised to get the endorsement of the powerful Teamsters, the second major union endorsement for the Democratic front-runner in a week, union officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Obama will meet with Teamster President James P. Hoffa in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. The endorsement is expected to come soon thereafter, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the planned formal announcement.</p>
<p>Union support will be key in the Democratic primaries in the next few weeks, particularly in Ohio on March 4 and Pennsylvania on April 22. Ohio and Pennsylvania have some of the nation’s largest number of union workers, with more than 15 percent of the work force unionized in Pennsylvania and just over 14 percent in Ohio.</p>
<p>The endorsement from the Teamsters is Obama’s fourth* from organized labor in a week. The 65,000-member International Brotherhood of Boilermakers endorsed Obama on Wednesday, the 1.9-million member Service Employees International Union backed the Illinois senator last Friday, and the smaller United Food and Commercial Workers endorsed him last Thursday.</p>
<p>*The Clinton News Network missed one. :)</p>
<p>Wow. My hubby is a teamster.</p>
<p>Well, ZM, for teamsters the individual choices have always been between Scylla and Charybdis.</p>
<p>My dear one doesn’t vote in the union elections and always votes republican in real elections.</p>
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<p>From CNN News Anchor Wolf Blitzer</p>
<p>"CNN) – The political momentum is clearly with Barack Obama. He has been impressive. But don’t count Hillary Clinton out yet — she has a formidable political machine and lots of ardent supporters.</p>
<p>Obama has won ten contests in a row — almost all of them by significant margins. But Clinton still has time to come back between now and March 4, when there are major contests in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island. There is no doubt she is facing an uphill struggle, but it would be premature to say it’s over."</p>
<p>“In short, I think it’s fair to say she’s in serious political trouble right now. But given the Clintons’ history, it would be a mistake to say her quest for the presidency is over. If she manages to win in Texas and Ohio — and that still is possible — she will go on to Pennsylvania on April 22, and this roller coaster political season will continue.”</p>