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Obama Wins Even if Florida and MIchigan are Fully Seated
Using Hillary's metric, if Florida and Michigan are counted fully the delegate needed to win increases to 2210. Here is how the number change if the FL/MI delegates were fully seated.
...... Total Delegates
..........Obama.......Clinton
Delegates 2156 ....... 1923
From FL ... 39 ......... 52
From MI ... 29 ......... 35
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Total ... 2224 ....... 2010
Obama is over the top with 14 extra votes. According to politico there are 117 uncommitted delegates. If Hillary got 100% percent of the remaining SD she would end up with 2127 or is 83 delegates short of the winning total.
Over the past 4 weeks, since the NC and IN primaries, Obama got a net gain of 76 new delegates, not counting yesterday's flood, and Hillary's net gain was 16. That is almost a 5 to 1 margin in Obama's favor. Yesterday Obama gained 63 new delegates, 8 of which swithced form Clinton to Obama.
The Delegates were not buying Hillary's arguments, that she should be the nominee even while she was winning West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico in a landslide.












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