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Sancho

(9,070 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 09:49 AM May 2016

Hillary is above target, and will win easily...

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/280304-clinton-less-than-100-delegates-from-nomination

The razor-thin Kentucky margin means that the two candidates will about split the state's 60 delegates, while Sanders will earn a handful more of Oregon's 74 delegates.

As of early Wednesday, The Associated Press awarded Clinton 29 delegates to Sanders's 27 in Kentucky with 3 remaining to be allocated. And in Oregon, the AP gave Clinton 30 delegates to Sanders's 29 with another 15 remaining.

That puts Clinton at 1,767 pledged delegates to Sanders's 1,488--a gap of 279 with just a handful of contests to go, according to the AP.

Neither candidate is likely to reach the threshold of 2,383 delegates without the help of superdelegates, party leaders given a vote on the convention floor. Clinton leads overwhelmingly there despite Sanders's pleas that they should support him instead. Her superdelegate success swells her delegate count to 2,291, just 92 delegates short.


Estimates are that she will need 89 to 92 more delegates. There are 79 in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands before we even get to June 7 and California!! Hillary could easily be less than 50 delegates away with almost 800 available in CA and NJ!

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liberal N proud

(60,336 posts)
1. I have seen several remarks by BSers today that Hillary Supporters are in panic mode
Wed May 18, 2016, 09:51 AM
May 2016

I just reply asking what the delegate split was last night.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
4. Sanders' followers now inhabit a fantasy world where picking up
Wed May 18, 2016, 09:56 AM
May 2016

2 or 3 delegates is a sign that Team Hillary is in panic mode. They really believe the crap being fed them by Mr Grumpy Riot Inciter. They really believe the race is close. They really believe Sanders will end up with more pledged delegates. If Sanders said the moon was made of green cheese they'd believe that, too.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
5. BS is in that same fantasy world right with them.. Did you
Wed May 18, 2016, 10:05 AM
May 2016

see his statement about the violence and misogyny from his fans in Nevada?

 

BobbyDrake

(2,542 posts)
8. I found it laughable that he laid his supporters' apartment being robbed on the DNC.
Wed May 18, 2016, 01:57 PM
May 2016

As if the DNC has nothing better to do than keep track of where his supporters are staying, as some kind of plot to take their stuff. What a (bad) joke.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
6. hillary pledged delegate lead will be huge and with super delegates support have
Wed May 18, 2016, 10:33 AM
May 2016

an overwhelming majority going into the convention BUT....sanders supporters will turn the convention into chaos similar to the 1968 convention in Chicago that destroyed humphries chances to beat Nixon

zealots don't care who or what they hurt and destroy

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