Pledged Delegates

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Remaining Superdelegates Will Outnumber Pledged Delegates After Tuesday Votes

Politico   |  Ben Smith   |   May 5, 2008 08:54 AM


Matt Seyfang points out to me that, after Tuesday, we'll pass a milestone: There will be more superdelegates than pledged delegates left to fight over. There are currently 404 pledged delegates left to be allocated; that number will be down...

Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted May 2, 2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news?

So do I. Any event of this magnitude would be the lead story on every evening news broadcast in the nation....

Slouching Toward Denver

Matthew Mundy | Posted April 24, 2008 | Off The Bus


Matthew Mundy

In the future, I hope that we can all look back on Obama's long, meandering path to the nomination (and, hopefully, the presidency) with fondness. I hope we can reminisce about how Clinton's relentless attacks just toughened him up for November, how she preempted the Republican attack machine by...

Sam Stein

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Obama Camp: Using Popular Vote Metric Just Ain't Gonna Work

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Sam Stein   |   April 23, 2008 11:08 AM


As the Clinton campaign turns its focus towards securing the popular vote in the Democratic primary, the response from the Obama campaign has been, and will continue to be: these aren't the rules of the game. And on Wednesday morning,...

The Weighted Popular Vote: Why Clinton Needs A Landslide

John K. Wilson | Posted April 22, 2008 | Off The Bus


John K. Wilson

Hillary Clinton’s last hope to win the nomination is to emerge victorious in the popular vote and convince superdelegates to steal away Obama’s victory in pledged delegates. Right-wing pundit Robert Novak claimed about Clinton, "Her strongest chance is to win the nation-wide popular vote."

If the purpose of counting...

Deja Vu: 2008 as 1968

Stephen B. Cohen | Posted March 26, 2008 | Politics


Stephen B. Cohen

Consider the stunning parallels between the contest for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2008 and the same contest 40 years earlier in 1968, which ended in a party divided. Both contests feature insurgent political campaigns, and the catalyst for the insurgency in both cases is opposition to an unpopular...

Time for Superdelegates to Ratify Obama's Insurmountable Pledged Delegate Lead and Settle the Democratic Nomination

Robert Creamer | Posted March 26, 2008 | Politics


Robert Creamer

The handwriting is on the wall. It is virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to overcome Barack Obama's insurmountable lead in pledged delegates.

The party's superdelegates are faced with only one choice. They must decide whether to ratify the outcome of the primaries and support the candidate with the most pledged...

A Superdelegate Mini Convention Makes Sense

Craig Crawford | Posted March 25, 2008 | Politics


Craig Crawford

Of all the ideas floating around among Democrats seeking to avoid a summer-long meltdown, the early June superdelegate "mini-convention" seems to be the most fair, reasonable and obtainable solution on the table.

The idea is to have superdelegates meet right after the primaries conclude and settle this feud between Barack...

Clinton: Pledged Delegates Are "Like Superdelegates"

Attywood   |  Will Brunch   |   March 25, 2008 09:34 AM


One final note from the Daily News editorial board session with Sen. Hillary Clinton today: Near the end of the session, I had the chance to ask her what essentially was a two-part question, based on recent stories in the...

We Are Here Because Of Ashley

Karen Russell | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics


Karen Russell

Yes He Did.

Senator Obama shows us what kind of president he will be in a crisis. Obama will be a brilliant teacher, a sincere uniter and an inspirational leader. Often accused of peddling false hope and empty rhetoric, Obama put that criticism behind him. Obama put his words...

Obama Expected To Make Gains In California Pledged Delegates

Wall Street Journal   |   March 13, 2008 12:10 AM


A little-noticed shift in the tally of California's Democratic delegates may affect the primary between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton as much as the heavily hyped results last Tuesday in Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island. Sen. Clinton...

Hillary Clinton's Only Remaining Hope: Steal This Election

Cenk Uygur | Posted March 12, 2008 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

First of all, let's be clear on one thing -- this race is over. Barack Obama has won. Hillary Clinton has lost. Obama's pledged delegate lead is insurmountable. He leads by about 150 delegates in that category. Hillary Clinton cannot and will not catch up to him.

Clinton's supposed...

Hillary Clinton: Pledged Delegates Can Switch Candidates

Huffington Post   |   March 10, 2008 09:01 AM


In an interview with Newsweek, Hillary Clinton raised the specter of pledged delegates, nominated by voters, switching their votes at the Democratic Convention. How can you win the nomination when the math looks so bleak for you? It doesn't look...
Sam Stein

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Obama Camp: Clinton Picks Up Only Four Delegates

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Sam Stein   |   March 5, 2008 07:39 PM


Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is claiming that after rival Hillary Clinton's three primary election wins Tuesday night, her campaign has picked up an inconsequential net gain of only four delegates in the race to win the Democratic nomination. That would...

Obama and The Myth of Pledged Delegates

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted March 5, 2008 | Politics


Stephen Schlesinger

There is no rule in the politics of Democratic Party conventions that says that the contender with the largest number of pledged delegates short of the total required for nomination should automatically, by dint of that achievement, be handed the party's designation. This argument is now being put forth by...

Clinton Targets Pledged Delegates

Politico   |  Roger Simon   |   February 19, 2008 08:29 AM


Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination. This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on...

Sign the Petitions for a Democratic Democratic Party

Miles Mogulescu | Posted February 15, 2008 | Politics


Miles Mogulescu

Last weekend I wrote a blog on the Huffington Post warning that if either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton win the most elected delegates in the primaries/caucuses, but the unelected Superdelegates veto the will of the voters and nominate the candidate with fewer elected delegates, it could split the Democratic...

What's Wrong with Superdelegates? Don't Americans Need Deciders?

Frank Dwyer | Posted February 11, 2008 | Politics


Frank Dwyer

In a recent post, "My Father the Superdelegate, and Why There's Nothing to Fear," Donnie Fowler attempts to reassure us that when the superdelegates, most of whom "have spent the majority of their lives serving the Democratic Party," choose the Democratic nominee, they will choose, from their "perspective and...

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