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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
Can somebody who knows more about this sort of thing or who has found a a reliable report not based on exit polls summarize factually where we stand after yesterday?
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I don't know who you are referring to with "we", but I assume the Democratic nominees?
Obama now needs 172 total delegates to capture the nomination while Clinton needs 326. This means that Clinton has to win 68% of the remaining delegates if she is to pass Obama.
Basically, she's going to go to superdelegates and say, "Please make me the nominee! Please please please! I really want it!"
Ironically, the only way that she can win (barring a colossal collapse by Obama) is if the superdelegates overturn the decision of the voters. For a candidate talking about not disenfranchising voters, this seems a little disingenuous.