Delegate Counts After Last Night
This is from Johnathan Singer at MyDD
A few things just in from Chuck Todd on MSNBC, who gets this stuff really well:
– NBC News now has Barack Obama up 1,078 to 969 in pledged delegates over Hillary Clinton.
– After tonight that number could be about 1,128 to 1,009. Importantly, though, when you add in the superdelegates, Obama is still projected to lead 1,306 delegates to 1,270.
– Obama could net a gain of 15 to 20 more delegates next week out of Wisconsin and Hawaii.
– If this pace keeps up, Clinton will have to start winning with 60 percent margins nationwide in order to end up with more pledged delegates than Obama in the end of the day.
-At this point, Obama now has received more votes than Clinton — even when the votes of Florida (where he didn’t campaign) and Michigan (where he wasn’t even on the ballot) are considered.
I still like/liked John Edwards best….the media killed him to shove the black-v-female angle down our thoats….a good ole white boy from NC, no matter how much of a progressive , people oriented Democrat, doesn’t ‘sell many papers’ these days.
In 2008 it’s impossible for the best candidate to win….the best we had is no longer in the race.