of the 20 unpledged delegates, 18 were selected in advance and 2 were selected at the state executive committee meeting on may 10, 2008. the delegates selected in advance were 9 democratic national committee members, the 7 democratic u.s. representatives from ohio (including 2008 democratic presidential candidate dennis kucinich, who had suspended his campaign before the ohio primary), u.s. senator sherrod brown, and governor ted strickland. just before the election, nine of ohio's 20 superdelegates had endorsed a candidate: five had announced support for senator clinton and four had committed to senator barack obama.