After today's ruling by the Rules & Bylaws Committee to seat Florida at half strength based on the results of the state's January 29th primary, and Michigan at half strength based off of the compromise 69-59 position, this leaves Barack Obama with 2,053 delegates to Hillary Clinton's 1,876.5 (source: DemConWatch). The new magic number is now 2,117 - something that moves the goalposts 23 delegates back for Obama and 2.5 delegates closer for Clinton...basically leading us to the conclusion that this whole exercise by the Clinton campaign didn't really move it further to the nomination; it only puts Obama further back.
From here, though, when ones looks at the projected results from the last 3 contests in Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Montana, it becomes clear that for Obama, he only requires 12.5 delegates to claim that he has rightfully won the nomination. Follow me below the fold for the math...
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