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Obama extends his lead by over 100 delegates

Posted on by Elias Kifle

Senator Barack Obama emerged from Tuesday’s primaries leading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by more than 100 delegates, a small but significant advantage that Democrats said would be difficult for Mrs. Clinton to make up in the remaining contests in the presidential nomination battle. Neither candidate is expected to win the 2,025 pledged delegates needed to claim the nomination by the time the voting ends in June. But Mr. Obama’s campaign began making a case in earnest on Wednesday that if he maintained his edge in delegates won in primaries and caucuses, he would have the strongest claim to the backing of the 796 elected Democrats and party leaders known as superdelegates who are free to vote as they choose and who now stand to determine the outcome… Read More >>

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  1. Along the same lines, they are informative stats from MSNBC’s FirstRead. QUOTE: *** The statistical front-runner: No matter how one slices the election results from last night, there’s no denying that Obama is the statistical front-runner. He’s got a 100-plus pledged delegate lead and even has the lead if you factor in superdelegates. Here’s our math: The NBC News election unit hard count stands at 1078 to 969. If you factor in the unallocated pledged delegates, our estimate rises to approximately 1128 to 1009 in Obama’s favor (margin of error +/- 5 delegates). Toss in the superdelegates and Obama’s lead is 1306 to 1270 (again +/- 5 delegates). What does this mean? For Clinton to overtake Obama for the pledged delegate lead — which we think is the single most important statistic for the superdelegates to decide their vote — she’ll have to win 55% of the remaining delegates. Assuming next week goes Obama’s way in Wisconsin and Hawaii, that percentage rises to 57%. Toss in likely Obama victories in Vermont, Wyoming, Mississippi, Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota, then Clinton’s percentage need tops 60% of the remaining delegates available. And this is simply for her to regain the pledged delegate lead? *** Staying on the statistical front: Check out these cumulative vote totals for primaries and caucuses to date:

    States Awarding Delegates
    Total Vote %
    Obama 9,373,334 50%
    Clinton 8,674,779 46%
    Others 726,095 4%

    With Florida
    Total Vote %
    Obama 9,942,375 49%
    Clinton 9,531,987 46%
    Others 984,236 4%

    With Florida and Michigan
    Total Vote %
    Obama 9,942,375 47%
    Clinton 9,860,138 47%
    Others 1,249,922 6%

  2. Hey Elias !
    am obama Fan but i don’t understand what you want to say by ” obama extends his lead by over 100 delegates”. As far as i see from CNN/plitics he is leading with 1262 Vs 1213 latest this evening. could you please explain me what do you mean by more than 100 delegates ? i would be happy if so ?

    Yes we can

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    The figure you mention includes superdelegates. It is not clear how the superdelegates will vote, so the New York Times and other media have stopped counting them.

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