Bernie Sanders’s bad delegate math just keeps getting worse
Poor Bernie.....
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The odd thing about winning a presidential nomination is that winning more points doesn't always get you closer to victory. It's not a football game, where tacking on a few touchdowns helps you come from behind to win. It's a football game in which there are only so many points to be distributed, so the number of touchdowns you need to score is relative to how many there are left.
Bernie Sanders continues to insist that his campaign can amass more pledged delegates than Hillary Clinton by the time voting is done on June 14, and that continues to become less possible. After Clinton's big wins on March 15, the math was basically prohibitive. Since April 5, Sanders has consistently scored fewer touchdowns than he needs to, despite winning more delegates than Clinton on a majority of the days of voting.
As it stands, using delegate counts from Daniel Nichanian and estimates for Tuesday's contests from the Green Papers, Sanders needs to win 67 percent of the remaining pledged delegates in order to pass Clinton by the time voting ends. The vast majority of those delegates — about three-quarters of them — come from California and New Jersey, states where Clinton currently leads. Sanders needs big wins in both of those states or a giant win in California, which would require a stunning shift in the relatively static pattern we've seen so far in Democratic voting.
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