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Associated PressJune 6, 2016

Striding into history, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, capturing commitments Monday from the number of delegates needed to become the Democrats’ presumptive nominee. The victory arrived nearly eight years to the day after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama. Back then, […]

Melissa RossMay 24, 2016

This wild 2016 campaign season, we’ve heard a lot about delegates. Pledged delegates. Superdelegates. “Unbound” delegates. Delegate math. Delegate count. The delegate tracker! The nation (er, actually just political junkies in this great land of ours) is tracking delegates the way people living in prefab housing in Oklahoma stay glued to the local news when […]

Associated PressApril 7, 2016

The standard line in Bernie Sanders‘ campaign speeches goes like this: “Despite what the corporate media is telling you, there is a path to the nomination.” If such a track exists, it’s far from clear what it is. Sanders is far behind Hillary Clinton in the race for delegates that will decide the nomination. He’ll […]

Associated PressMarch 6, 2016

Sen. Marco Rubio has won Puerto Rico’s Republican primary, his second win of the race for the GOP presidential nomination. It wasn’t clear how many delegates the contest awards him. The U.S. territory’s three super-delegates have committed to Rubio. If a candidate gets more than half the votes, he gets all the delegates. If no […]

Associated PressNovember 13, 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton has locked up public support from half of the Democratic insiders who cast ballots at the party’s national convention, giving her a commanding advantage over her rivals for the party’s presidential nomination. Clinton’s margin over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is striking. Not only is it big, […]

Tag: Superdelegates

AP count: Hillary Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination

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Why Bernie Sanders keeps winning but may not be Democratic nominee

Marco Rubio wins Puerto Rico GOP race

Party insiders give Hillary Clinton early, commanding delegate edge