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Obama’s Delegate Math

May
21

obama.jpgHere’s Barack Obama’s campaign’s breakdown of where he is with the delegate count, as he now has a majority of the pledged delegates.

“Including the projected 31 delegates Obama won in Oregon, the 14 we won in Kentucky and the support of superdelegate Congressman Joe Courtney that we announced this morning, Obama has now won a majority of pledged delegates and is just 62 delegates away from securing the nomination.

The Math
Total Pledged Delegates: 3,253
Pledged Delegates needed for majority: 1,627
Total delegates needed for nomination: 2026

Pledged delegate projections from last night:
Oregon: Obama 31, Clinton 21
Kentucky: Obama 14, Clinton 37

Edwards pledged delegates now supporting Obama: 9

Obama Pledged Delegates: 1,647.5 (20.5 more than needed for the majority)
Obama Superdelegates: 307.5
Obama Total Delegates: 1,964
Number of delegates Obama needs to secure the nomination: 62

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pm by Joseph Spector.
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