Are Clinton supporters really prepared to tell black America that this time, the rules are different? What if, I asked McGovern, Obama has more pledged delegates, it's a tie among the superdelegates and you've got the final vote? Will you cast the ...

one fewer delegate The road to the Democratic nomination for president got easier Monday - by one delegate. The number of delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination fell to 2,024 because of several changes among ...

" But Harold Ickes, who oversees Clinton's delegate tracking, accused the Obama team of making "a phony distinction" between pledged delegates and superdelegates. "We expect to be very close to him in overall delegates (at the end of the ...

_ Barack Obama bested Hillary Clinton in the Mississippi presidential primary Tuesday, completing a clean sweep of the Deep South states and winning the last electoral contest before Pennsylvania's delegate-rich primary, six weeks away ... Obama ...

, to select three Clinton delegates, two Obama delegates and one alternate to send to the national convention ... She sent out an e-mail last week to drum up support to become a national delegate for the Illinois ...

Unless national party leaders "are willing to write off the state of Florida in the general election, we have to do something that seats our delegates," he said. National party officials stripped Florida and Michigan of their delegates to ...

Neither Democrat campaigned in the state, and the candidates and state officials are squabbling over how to count Florida's 211 delegates, which include the state's 26 super delegates. Michigan has 156 delegates, including 28 super ...

4--So, you're excited about finally getting the chance to vote in a presidential primary, right? Well, tonight you can move beyond the ballot box by participating in a precinct convention -- where delegates are selected to go to the county ...

GOP delegates The party divvies up 170 delegates Tuesday in California - three per congressional district plus 11 to the statewide winner - and 1,191 are needed to secure the party nomination ... Democratic delegates The party will award ...

The Democrat Representative Jason Altmire, of Pennsylvania, told the newspaper: "If we get to the end and Senator Obama has won more states, has more delegates and more popular vote I would need some sort of rationale for why at that point any ...

That's a change from their previous insistence that the primaries their states held in January should determine how the their delegates are allocated ... The Democratic National Committee stripped both states of all delegates for holding the ...

what's next Tuesday Democrats 121 delegates at stake Hawaii caucus, 29 Wisconsin primary, 92 GOP 40 delegates at stake Wisconsin primary, 40 March 4 Democrats 444 delegates at stake Ohio primary, 161 Rhode Island ...

Obama picked up at least 17 of Mississippi's 33 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, with five more to be awarded. He hoped for a win sizable enough to erase most if not all of Clinton's 11-delegate gain from last week, when she won ...

The former Massachusetts governor called on the delegates who backed him to win the party's nomination to throw their weight behind Mr McCain and give a boost to his seemingly unstoppable campaign ... " Mr Romney, who said he did not want to split ...

Harold Ickes, a Clinton campaign strategist, a member of the bylaws comittee who voted a year ago to ban delegates from states that held illegal" elections, angrily protested the apportionment and threatened to appeal the delegate seating at the ...