A combination of primary/caucus delegate successes(180), additional superdelegate endoursements (11), and realignment of the California Delegate distribution (2) have netted Senator Obama with a total of 193 delegates this week, reducing the number of delegates he needs for nomination from 655 to 462. An additional 58 delegates are up in Wyoming (18 Saturday) and Mississippi (40).
Senator Obama needs 45% of all the remaining pledged delegates and undeclared super delegates to get the nomination.
Senator maintains a lead of delegates by 100 virtually the same he had at the begining of the week.
1) UpComing contests
Mar 8 Wyoming 18 delegates
Mar 11 Mississippi 40 delegates
Apr 22 Pennsylvania 188 delegates
May 3 Guam 9 delegates
May 6 Indiana 84 delegates
May 6 North Carolina 134 delegates
May 13 West Virginia 39 delegates
May 20 Kentucky 60 delegates /
May 20 Oregon 65 delegates
Jun 3 Montana 24 delegates
South Dakota 23 delegates
Jun 7 Puerto Rico 63 delegates
Total Remaining Pledged Delegates 747 Obama currently has 1360 Clinton currently has 1220
2)Total Remaining Super Delegates 277 Obama currently has 202 Clinton currently has 242
Total Delegates Remaining 1024
3)Obama's magic number is 462
Clinton's magic number is 562
4)Obama's required percent of outstanding delegates is 45%
Clinton's required percent of outstanding delegates is 55%
5) Results from Tuesday: The allocation of delegates from March 4th primaries and caucuses
. . . . .Obama . . . . Clinton . . .Net Gain for Obama
Vemont . . 9 . . . . . . .6 . . . . . . .+3
R. Island. 8 . . . . . . .13 . . . . . . .-5
Ohio . . .65 . . . . . . 74 . . . . . . .-9
Texas. . .98 . . . . . . .95 . . . . . . .+3
NBC's projection is that Hillary will have a net of + 8 Delegates from all four states
6) SuperDelegate update for March +11 for Obama
3/6 DNC Thurman (IN) REP Rehall (TX)DNC Thompson (NV)
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080306/NEWS05/803060462/1008/LOCAL19http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/16339466.htmlhttp://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBLxN3/5 DNC McLin (OH) DNC Kidd (GA) Burnett (IL) +3
http://1290whio.com/includes/news/indepth/5279860_Dayto... http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/news/stories/2008/03/05/kidd_0305.html3/4 DNC Fowler (SC) Long (GA) Brooks (TX) +3
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgraham... http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/news/stories/2008/03/0... http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgraham... 3/1 DNC Weinike (WI) and Burkhalter AL for Obama +2
http://www.madison.com/tct/news//index.php?ntid=275115 http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/po... 6) Endorsements by Office
Senators Obama 11 Clinton 10
Govenors Obama 15 Clinton 13
Congress.Obama 70 Clinton 72
Sources DemcomWatch
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/ohio-texas-verm... NYTimes
http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results... http://calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5248