Delegate math: How Tuesday could close door on Sanders

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton can’t win enough delegates Tuesday to officially knock Bernie Sanders out of the presidential race, but she can erase any lingering honest doubts about whether she’ll soon be the Democratic nominee.

After her victory in New York this past week, Clinton has a lead over Sanders of more than 200 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses. As she narrowed Sanders’ dwindling opportunities to catch up, Clinton continued to build on her overwhelming support among superdelegates – the party officials who are free to back any candidate they choose.

In the past two days, Clinton picked up 11 more endorsements from superdelegates, according to an Associated Press survey.

Factoring in superdelegates, Clinton’s lead stands at 1,941 to 1,191 for Sanders, according to the AP count. That puts her at 81 percent of the 2,383 delegates needed to win the nomination.

At stake Tuesday are 384 delegates in primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. This group of contests offers Sanders one of the last chances left on the election calendar to gain ground in pledged delegates and make a broader case to superdelegates to support him.

Yet it appears Clinton could do well enough Tuesday to end the night with 90 percent of the delegates needed to win the nomination, leaving her just 200 or so shy.

The Sanders campaign knows a tough battle awaits in those five states and says it will reassess its campaign after Tuesday. If Sanders fails to win significantly in the latest primaries, he won’t have another chance to draw closer in a big way until California votes on June 7.

Clinton is on track to already have hit the magic number of 2,383 by that point.



http://www.nwherald.com/2016/04/24/delegate-math-how-tuesday-could-close-door-on-sanders/arm2y02/

[highprincipleswork]

1. I'm gonna be suggesting he say in until the convention.

[MFM008]

2. sure

because we democrats always pull defeat from the jaws of victory.

[silvershadow]

6. Her continued presence sure did. What an albatross around the party's neck. nt

[dgauss]

3. It's time for some Democrats to celebrate.

The progressive candidate is nearly defeated.

[oasis]

4. Hillary will be going for the knock out punch.

Once she puts a muzzle on Bernie's campaign she can fully devote her resources to the GE.

[silvershadow]

7. The party will not be foolish enough to embarrass the membership as whole with her.

They will NOT, in the bitter end, put her forward. The true insiders already know they cannot commit suicide this way. It would be political malpractice.

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Enormous K & R. Thanks for posting.

[frustrated_lefty]

8. Be very surpriserd if Clinton breaks 2,000 pledged delegates.

[Gothmog]

9. Sanders will be unable to over come the current delegate lead

[Logical]

10. LOL, this shit is posted weekly, yet he is still in the race. nt

[bvf]

11. And he's in it all the way.

Crap got old a long time ago.

On to Philadelphia!

[Zynx]

12. Only because he decides to keep going.

He's been functionally out of it since Super Tuesday.

[Logical]

13. Nope, keeping Hillary honest, if that is possible. Nt

[Lucinda]

14. If that count is accurate she only needs 85 to hit 2026!