Delegate news

The delegates continue to stream in:

Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama officially picked up two more delegates today in his bid for the White House. They were awarded to him after the Illinois Board of Elections recalculated the delegates assigned after the state's primary [...]

Clinton lost the delegates because she didn't receive the required 15 percent of the vote in two South Side congressional districts. The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to our calls for comment.

That's two delegates previously assigned to Clinton, now shipped over to Obama, making it a +4 delegate shift in Obama's favor.

Meanwhile, final certified results in Colorado and New York favored Clinton -- she got four new delegates in Colorado (previously unassigned) and an extra one out of New York. Per Obama's math, he loses two votes in Colorado (negating the Illinois additions), while his math was already spot on in New York.

Clinton, however, picked up three new super delegates helping her offset the loss of Spitzer. I haven't been able to find out who those three were.

Meanwhile, don't look now, but it looks like we have two more debates coming, one in Pensylvania 4/16, the other in North Carolina 4/19 (assuming Clinton accepts the latter). Me, I'm sick of debates.

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