4th District Voters Poised To Pick Wynn's Replacement

"You had to defend yourself for your selection," said Turner, who had worked for Clinton's 2000 senatorial campaign.

But Turner said he told those friends all along that he would support the party's nominee. That support comes a lot easier, he said, because Clinton has backed Obama the same way she ran her campaign: "very hard, very enthusiastic."

Former county executive Wayne K. Curry, who was selected to be a pledged Clinton delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, told Post reporter Avis Thomas-Lester that he found it "ironic" that "two people who would be natural allies found themselves working as adversaries because of their attractiveness to different parts of the traditional Democratic Party fabric."

"They both fought honorably and respectfully, but it is now time to unify the party and move to November," he said.

Benjamin S. Barnes (D-Prince George's), another delegate pledged to Clinton, said it is too early to decide how he will cast his ballot in Denver.

By suspending but not formally ending her campaign, Clinton has not released her delegates. She is said to want her delegates to vote for her at the convention in recognition of the millions who supported her during the primary.

Barnes said that regardless of his vote at the convention, he is onboard for Obama.

One convention delegate, County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D), who has endorsed Clinton and Obama at different times in recent months, recently declared that he could not in good conscience go to the convention and not vote for Obama.