AP: Hillary on Track to ‘Clinch Nomination’ Within a Month

[baldguy]

Based on primaries and caucuses to date, Clinton now has 1,706 delegates while Sanders has 1,414 — or a lead of 292 delegates, according to the AP count.

If he hopes to overtake her based on just those primary and caucus delegates, he still must win 66 percent of the remaining delegates — a figure unchanged from before.

Clinton's lead is bigger when including superdelegates — party officials who can support any candidate.

She now has a total of 2,229 delegates, or 94 percent of the 2,383 delegates needed to win. Sanders has 1,453.

Just 154 delegates short, Clinton remains on track to clinch the nomination early next month.

more:
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/sanders-nets-31-delegates-washington-state-while-clinton-notches-guam-n569851

[HassleCat]

1. Better late than never.

This was supposed to happen sometime shortly after the Iowa caucuses.

[JaneyVee]

8. In reality, it was over a while ago.

[Hortensis]

14. Right. Since Indiana Bernie CANNOT win.

He needs more delegates than are still available.

Hillary will not even need her superdelegates to win. She will win on pledged delegates, i.e., the popular vote, alone.

[Renew Deal]

2. Hillary can clinch it tomorrow if most of the remaining delegates come out in support.

[Lucinda]

6. It sure would be great if they did!

[morningfog]

11. That wouldn't be clinching it.

She could have the endorsement every super delegate (I assume that is what you mean) available, even Bernie's and she still wouldn't clinch it until she has a pledged delegate majority.

[Logical]

3. LOL, they say this every fucking month. nt

[nashville_brook]

4. it's not "clinching" it if it's going all the way to the convention.

[Hortensis]

15. Sure it is. Your scenario:

* Bernie CANNOT win because not enough pledged delegates are still available.
* She gets the 100+ delegates she needs to wrap it up within the month.
* He refuses to admit it for yet another month.
* At the convention, the party officially nominates the winner.

Btw, Bernie has now been saying that he's going to the convention to push for a progressive platform (not to win the nomination), and Hillary says she looks forward to working with him on that.

Platforms, of course, are statements of goals and beliefs and are effectively more of a wish list than anything else. (If our party could do anything we wanted, we would...) They typically have dozens of items packed into them by various factions and are mostly forgotten as soon as conventions are over since they are nonbinding and carrying them out in any one administration would always be completely impossible. Nevertheless, beefing up our list of progressive goals seems likely.

[Lucinda]

5. KNR

[silvershadow]

7. Longest stretch of a Presumptuous Nominee ever...doubt she will even make it then. nt

[JaneyVee]

9. She clinched it months ago. We're just going thru the motions now.

[bkkyosemite]

10. The Supers do not count until they vote at the Convention. We shall see.

[KingFlorez]

13. None of the delegates count until they vote

[morningfog]

12. Early next month on the last day of voting.