A few weeks back I wrote a blog after crunching delegate numbers and predicted after the remaining dozen or so primaries are completed that the Obama delegate lead will remain about the same – around 140.
The Wall Street Journal ran a very interesting story this week about shifting delegate counts as results are certified. In most cases there is little to no change but something interesting happened in California. Final results expected out this week show that Obama won 167 delegates (not the 163 originally reported) and Clinton won 203 delegates (not the 207 originally reported). Increasing Obama’s overall delegate lead by an additional 8 delegates.
The correction in California delegates basically wiped out Clinton’s delegate margin in Ohio.
Yet to be reported are expected updates in New York once the vote fraud investigation and counting is complete. As reported in the New York Times, the “irregularities” could shift delegates into the Obama column.
So I am not revising my estimate for Obama to factor in the unusual counting errors and will project that when the last primary is done (Puerto Rick June 10th) Obama will increase his delegate count by 10 to a total of 152 – not including Michigan, Florida or the Supers.
Comments are closed for this post.
