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Delegate update: More IN/NC allocated

Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:01 AM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
NBC News has allocated more pledged delegates for last night's contests. The latest:

INDIANA: Clinton 37-33 (2 remain to be allocated)
NORTH CAROLINA: Obama 63-47 (5 remain to be allocated)

The Delegate Counts:
PLEDGED: Obama 1,588-1,422
SUPERDELEGATES: Clinton 272.5-256 (266.5 undeclared)
OVERALL: Obama 1,844-1.694.5

This would put Obama within 181 of the 2,025 magic number. (This, of course, does not include Florida and Michigan.)

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Game, set, match.  There is no way Clinton can beat this math, even with MI/FL.

Game over.
So, assuming that all of the unallocated delegates from NC and Indiana go to Hillary Clinton, Obama picked up a net 5 delegates last night.

Congratulations to Barack Obama.  He will be the Democratic party nominee for President.  All that is left is for him to accept the nomination in Denver, and announce his running mate.  I continue to hope that he will pick a female running mate, but not Hillary Clinton!  Please, Senator Obama, there are plenty of qualified women for the ticket.  Please choose someone with integrity.  That automatically eliminates Hillary Clinton from consideration.

Obama in 2008.  Integrity matters and the Clintons have none.
Would you all be able to add a popular vote tally/tracker onto your list of metrics that you update regularly?
My Dem registration is in the trash,along with my old party.Go McCain!!!!I just put his sign in my front yard.You are SOOO lame Democants!!
Don't get me wrong, I love to see more Delegates awarded to My Man, Obama, but it is nice not to have to sweat each, and every one!

Wonderful!!!
I truly want to reach out to all Clinton supporters.  As a DEMOCRAT first, and an Obama supporter second, this country truly needs a new direction in politics.  Now, I know there will be those who will absolutely not vote for Obama, but then there are those who want a Democrat as the next President; like myself.  Do what is right for the country, put aside all the hate that has built up over the past couple of months and think about your future, and that of your children/grandchildren.  Remember, a vote for McCain is a vote for another 4 years of the HELL this country has faced under George W. Bush, and 4 more years our service men and women will be in Iraq with no exit strategy.  Lastly, we are AMERICANS before anything else.
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date.  It will be particularly interesting to see what happens with the SDs in the next few days.

And can I put a plea in (I usually don't do this) to keep the Kentucky Derby analogies out of this.  Many of us (on all sides and no matter what are thoughts are on the subject of horse-racing) are animal lovers and just don't want the tragedy of that horse dying to come into this discussion at all.

Sorry, just needed to say that.  I realize not all might agree with me but wanted to say it anyway.
To all my fellow Obama supporters...BE GRACIOUS in our victory. We have won and it is time to build bridges. I expect Edward's name to appear this week. Hillary is out of money. Tim Russert has spoken. Be gracious in our victory.
Hey MSNBC, Can we please retire the cute distinction between "too close to call" and "too early to call"? Last night revealed the specious reasoning at the heart of that non-distinction. If too early to call simply means you think you know who will win but you don't know for sure yet, that would seem to be precisely the same definition for too close to call.

It's either CLOSE, and you can't call it (the outcome is in question).

Or you CALL IT.

TOO EARLY makes no sense. (e.g.: The 2009 Super Bowl is, as I speak, too early to call.)
hillarious will defeat hussein obama in denver. mr.

MCcain will be our next president. it doesn't matter

who the demlibs put up agains't us. WE OWN THE WHITE

HOUSE.


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