Delegate Math Still Looks Grim For Hillary
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Hillary, Super Delegates!!!, VideoBasically, it is ABSOLUTELY impossible for Obama to lose his lead in pledged delegates. Not only that, it looks impossible for him to dip much below a lead of 140 or so.
Chuck Todd has the numbers…
So what else is there? Superdelegates. And does anybody really think they’re going to break for Hillary enough to make up that -140 deficit?
More as it develops…
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April 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Oh yeah. Easy. In fact, it is more likely than ever. Especially when we get to the end of the last primary in June and and you add up every vote cast for Clinton, and you add up every vote cast for Obama, and there will be more for Clinton. So Obama will have pledged delegates, and Clinton will have more votes, and more momentum and more big states and more traditional blue collar Democratic voters. And the Superdelegates will say – “Our best chance in November is a Clinton / Obama ticket, and that is what we want and that is what we are voting for. Deal with Barack.”
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:33 am
Easy? Even assuming she isn’t blown out in NC, (which is happening in the polls right now) she would have to have much larger margins than she did tonight to make up the difference in popular vote. Indiana is basically a tie right now, Obama with a slight lead. She may get Kentucky, but he’s got Oregon. There just aren’t enough votes left for her to fight over for anybody to think it would be EASY. There’s no BIG states left that she really has a chance of pulling a 20 pt margin. Also you have to consider that she’s basically broke, most news outlets reporting her as in debt according to FEC filings. She got 2.5 million tonight in new donations, but how long will that last her when she has to spread it between Indiana and North Carolina? Obama is already starting up his campaign in Oregon. I think Clinton would make a great President, but looking at this practically, and without any of the hysteria that seems to accompany this election, she has seriously mis-managed her campaign financially, in part I suspect from the surprise support for Obama. She probably didn’t think she’d have to campaign much past Super Tuesday. Anyway, just wanted to throw my two cents in (it actually looks more like $1.34) Oh, and a Clinton/Obama ticket is not going to happen, if anything it will be Obama/Clinton. Not saying that’s my preference, just the most likely.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
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April 24th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Lets see 8 years of George Bush. Oh, how about 16 years of Bill Clinton/Hillary Clinton. That is too much!