False Majority

Obama Campaign To Falsely Claim Clear Majority of Pledged Delegates

Submitted by Nick Kelly on May 19, 2008 - 11:29pm.
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States and Territories will be sending 3,566 pledged delegates to Denver. Half plus 1 of that is 1,734 pledged delegates. Obama currently has 1,610 pledged delegates. Kentucky has 51 pledged delegates to be won, and Oregon has 52 pledged delegates to be won. So, even if Obama won 100% of the pledged delegates in play on May 20, he would have only 1,713 pledged delegates, which is 21 short of a clear majority.

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