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Neither Obama nor Clinton can win the 2,025 delegates required for nomination without some combination of elected delegates (those chosen in primaries and caucuses) and superdelegates (party and elected officials who are automatic delegates to the Democrats' Denver convention this summer). About 800 of the approximately 4,000 delegates...
Other contests might be more favorable for Clinton (Pennsylvania, Indiana, Guam, West Virginia, Montana, and South Dakota), but even decisive wins in those states - say, in the 60-40 range - would still leave her behind in both elected delegates and the overall count. That remains true even if Clinton somehow...
This is the heart of Clinton's multi-dimensional challenge. Obama has of late signed up more superdelegates than Clinton in part because they are swayed by his lead in elected delegates. Yet unless there is a significant change in the overall dynamic - a major Obama blunder or scandal, for...
The Ohio governor had particularly harsh words for party leaders who suggest that Clinton should bow out tonight. Strickland blasted Senator Ted Kennedy, who took his own campaign against fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter all the way to the 1980 Democratic convention.
“It got to the point where I was leaving work early and literally changing from my CIA clothes to my kitchen clogs and running over to the restaurant kitchen or the bakery twice a week,” she says. “By the end of...