The Political Chase

Obama Camp: Wildly Creative Scenarios To Win Nomination Are Not Legitimate

This is from the email I noted in my last post. The Obama campaign is turning up the rhetoric to counter Hillary’s ever-changing rules to win the Democratic nomination. The timing and the tone of the message can hardly be coincidental. As of one hour ago, Clinton was meeting with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). My guess is, something was said or a scenario(s) presented, that probably struck a nerve in the Obama camp.

Here’s the math of where we stand …

There are only six contests remaining on the Democratic primary calendar and only 217 pledged delegates left to be awarded. Only 7% of the pledged delegates remain on the table. There are 253 remaining undeclared superdelegates, for a total of 470 delegates left to be awarded.

With North Carolina and Indiana complete, Barack Obama only needs 170 total delegates to capture the Democratic nomination. This is only 36% of the total remaining delegates.

Conversely, Senator Clinton needs 326 delegates to reach the Democratic nomination, which represents a startling 69% of the remaining delegates.

With the Clinton path to the nomination getting even narrower, we expect new and wildly creative scenarios to emerge in the coming days.

While those scenarios may be entertaining, they are not legitimate and will not be considered legitimate by this campaign or its millions of supporters, volunteers, and donors.

We want to be clear — we believe that the winner of a majority of pledged delegates will be and should be the nominee of our party.

And we estimate that after the Oregon and Kentucky primaries on May 20th, we will have won a majority of the overall pledged delegates.

Evidently, the Clinton campaign agrees. According to a recent news report, by even their most optimistic estimates the Clinton Campaign expects to trail by more than 100 pledged delegates and will then ask the superdelegates to overturn the will of the voters.

But we have our own case to make: that millions of Americans volunteering their time and donating in small amounts have built a campaign that has won the most delegates, the most states, and the most votes.

And this campaign — your campaign — will be the one that wins the presidency in November and delivers a wave of support for Democrats at every level of office.