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SunSeeker's JournalHillary Clinton only needs 17 percent of remaining delegates to clinch nomination
Remember those superdelegates, the Democratic Party leaders and elected officials who can vote for the candidate of their choice? The ones Sanders' supporters have been complaining about for months? It turns out, to have a shot at beating out Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president, he needs them.
A lot of them.
Sanders needs the delegates who remain uncommitted, as well as more than 200 of those who have already publicly endorsed Clinton. Mathematically, Sanders cannot win the nomination without that support.
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Clinton won the Guam caucus on Saturday and now needs just 17 percent of the delegates at stake in upcoming contests to clinch the nomination. That means she could lose every single contest by a landslide and still be the nominee if all of her superdelegates continue to support her.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-only-needs-17-percent-of-remaining-delegates-to-clinch-nomination/
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Sanders (and some of his cyberspace supporters) have berned a lot of bridges with the Superdelegates. He will never get enough of them to flip.
Obama Thanks His 5th Grade Teacher on Teacher Appreciation Day
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day, President Obama tweeted his thanks today to his fifth grade teacher, along with a photo of his fifth grade class.
"To my 5th grade teacher Ms. Mabel Hefty and the educators who inspire our young people every single day: Thank you," Obama wrote.
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The president expanded on why his fifth grade teacher, Ms. Hefty, had such a lasting impact on him in an email sent to the White House email list last year.
“The first time she called on me, I wished she hadn't. In fact, I wished I were just about anywhere else but at that desk, in that room of children staring at me. But over the course of that year, Ms. Hefty taught me that I had something to say -- not in spite of my differences, but because of them. She made every single student in that class feel special,” Obama wrote.
"She reinforced that essential value of empathy that my mother and my grandparents had taught me. That is something that I carry with me every day as President. This is the simple and undeniable power of a good teacher," the president continued.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-5th-grade-teacher-teacher-appreciation-day/story?id=38850063
Great picture of Obama with his 5th grade class and Ms. Hefty at the link!
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