With all this talk of numbers... there's a new number to remember, and that's 398. What is this number, you may ask? It's the number of superdelegates needed to for a majority.
With 794 supers altogether in this primary season for the Democrats, a candidate only needs 398 before they can claim a victory in the so called Superdelegate Primary. Such a number is possibly within reach sooner than we may think.
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Barack Obama, with his +4 supers this morning (3 new add ons from IL) will have 246 according to Democratic Convention Watch, just 152 away from this number. It's not altogether out of the question that with the current pace, while still glacial, that magic 398 number could be reached by the time we get to the May 20 primaries, which seems to be the final goalpost in many's eyes before it becomes impossible for Hillary to win this thing. Plus, its widely considered that would be the day Barack would pass the 50+1 threshold in pledged delegates -- that also brings more supers automatically to our side due to the "Pelosi Club."
So how do we get there? It's a tall order, but it could be done. All it would take is around 7 supers per day to get this done. We've seen in the past two days that the number of announcements have been increasing, and I only expect it to become more rapid as the primaries come to a close.
How would Hillary be able to argue her way out of that one? :)