Before today, Hillary Clinton required 66% of the remaining elected delegates in order to win an overall majority of non-superdelegates in the race. A tall order indeed.
After tonight, Hillary Clinton needs...
71%.
That's right. 71%
If Clinton gained anything tonight, it's that she now needs 5% more of the remaining delegates than she did yesterday.
She needs 71% of the delegates in Guam. In Indiana. In North Carolina. In Kentucky and Oregon. In Puerto Rico. In Montana and South Dakota.
She needs 71% of the remaining delegates in these states and protectorates in order to avoid having the superdelegates overturn the will of the people.
She needs 71% of the delegates to not have to rely on a bizarre scheme of combining the electoral vote with the number of states she won on a Friday, and multiplying it with the number of states won by Ronald Reagan to the power of 8.
She needs 71% of the remaining delegates to actually win the small-d democratic part of this contest.
71%.
Keep repeating that.
71%.
No, she can't.