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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-15-08 05:39 PM
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Hillary will get 53 delegates, Obama will get 50 in PA. Even if she wins.
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This is all about THREE delegates????

How many delegates might each candidate win in Pennsylvania, which is the most populous of the states and territories that have yet to vote?

That answer will be mainly determined not by the sum of the votes Clinton and Obama win in Pennsylvania, but rather by the state’s parts. Pennsylvania will send 187 Democratic delegates to the party’s national convention in Denver this August, and most of them — 103 to be exact — will be allocated according to the votes the candidates receive in each of the state’s 19 congressional districts.

And a CQ Politics analysis of the political circumstances in Pennsylvania’s congressional districts, detailed below, projects an edge to Clinton — but by just 53 district-level delegates to 50 for Obama under the Democratic Party’s proportional distribution rules.

These numbers suggest that Clinton, even with a victory in Pennsylvania, would make only a small incremental gain against Obama’s overall lead in the delegate race.

Of the state’s remaining 84 slots, only 55 pledged delegates will be distributed based on the statewide popular vote, with the state’s remaining 29 seats going to unpledged “superdelegates.”

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002703375&cpage=1

Okay, granted, she could pick up a few more from the other 55 pledged delegates which are distributed by statewide totals but not many.

The bulk of delegates in PA are NOT allotted by a statewide victory.

For this she kneecaps our hope for taking back the WH?
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