{"id":2518,"date":"2008-05-22T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2008-05-22T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T19:08:35","slug":"math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.nytimes.com\/election-guide\/2008\/results\/delegates\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Times' numbers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Obama has 1,953.5 total delegates, so far.<br \/>\nClinton has 1,769 total delegates, so far.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the rules today (FL and MI don't count), 2026 is the number a candidate needs to secure the nomination. So:<\/p>\n<p>Obama needs <strong>73 <\/strong>more to hit the magic number.<br \/>\nClinton needs <strong>257 <\/strong>more.<\/p>\n<p>What's left to win?<\/p>\n<p>There are currently <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.nytimes.com\/election-guide\/2008\/results\/superdelegates\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>178.5<\/strong><\/a> un-pledged super-delegates, and <strong>86 <\/strong>state delegates: <strong>265<\/strong> left (round-up on that 0.5).<br \/>\n55 from Puerto Rico - June 1<br \/>\n16 from Montana - June 3<br \/>\n15 from South Dakota - June 3<\/p>\n<p>So, if Hillary wins <strong>every <\/strong>outstanding super-delegate, and <strong>every <\/strong> remaining state delegate, she will pass the magic number by <strong>8<\/strong>. Not much wiggle room there.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Obama can do this in a walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times' numbers: Obama has 1,953.5 total delegates, so far. Clinton has 1,769 total delegates, so far. Based on the rules today (FL and MI don't count), 2026 is the number a candidate needs to secure the nomination. So: Obama needs 73 more to hit the magic number. Clinton needs 257 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}