The Voodoo Math of the GOP Nomination
Take all those factors together and you can see that Romney's "I'm mathematically inevitable" pitch is more spin than reality.
Take all those factors together and you can see that Romney's "I'm mathematically inevitable" pitch is more spin than reality.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 03.09.2012
WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich has won more "bound" delegates than Rick Santorum so far in the Republican presidential primary, according to the official...
Dee Dee Myers | Posted 05.25.2011
The Clinton campaign simply declared that the magic number--the combined pledged and super delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination--had changed.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011
The most predictive economic indicator in Presidential campaigns has been gas prices. Clinton may be pandering but she isn't dumb. The gas tax holiday is good strategy. This year of course may be different.
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 05.25.2011
Her strategy is to amass as much momentum as possible by winning the remaining contests by as massive margins as she can muster and then convince uncommitted superdelegates to turn to her.
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 05.25.2011
Sometime tonight, after the House and Senate finish voting, members of Congress who are backing Barack Obama's presidential bid will huddle in the Cap...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama narrowed the delegate gap with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Saturday, picking up delegates in four cont...
Talking Points Memo | Josh Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011
Howard Fineman just did a brief segment on MSNBC gaming out the delegate count and where it's likely to end up when the last primaries and caucuses ar...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's everything you always wanted to ask but never dared to about the Democratic delegates and superdelegates. Who are the Democratic delegates and...
Politico | Mike Allen | Posted 05.25.2011
In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the nu...
Politico | Mike Allen | Posted 05.25.2011
The Politico reports: In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in ne...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 05.25.2011
The split decision from Super Tuesday's coast-to-coast balloting has thrust the fight over the disputed delegations from Michigan and Florida back int...
Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama has, at this point, won 11 states, of 22 in play. Worst-case scenario, he's already won half. If he picks up Alaska, which I suspect he will, he...
New York Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 05.25.2011
The presidential campaign is entering a new phase as Democratic and Republican candidates move beyond state-by-state competition and into a potentiall...
Politico.com | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
John Edwards has said he's in the Democratic primary to win it. He's also said he's planning on staying in "through the convention." And while tho...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In the wake of a loss to Sen. Clinton in the Nevada caucus, the Obama campaign is floating the idea that dubious electoral contrivance may have influe...
Chris Ladd | Posted 05.12.2012