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After Tuesday's Voting, Obama May Be Only 20 Delegates From Clinching Nomination
Here's a useful crunching of the numerical results of yesterday's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting.
Yesterday, Hillary got 87 pledged dels out of the Florida and Michigan solutions, while Obama got 63, netting 24 for her.
The new magic number is 2,118.
If you factor in the Edwards delegates who have pledged to vote for Obama, the Illinois Senator has a total of 2,055.5 -- putting him 62.5 delegates away from that magic number.
Assuming Clinton and Obama split the remaining 86 delegates at stakes in Puerto Rico, South Dakota and Montana evenly (43 apiece), that would put Sen. Obama 19.5 away from clinching the nomination. (So, for all practical purposes, he would need about 20 super-delegates to hit the magic number.) Clinton would need 195.
Bottom line: After Tuesday, Obama may need less than two-dozen super-dels to clinch the nomination. Hillary would need more than 16 dozen of them.
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