Obama has a total of 1,477 delegates and superdelegates, according to The Associated Press. Clinton has 1,391 ...

McCain would need a decisive win over GOP rivals Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul to rack up delegates in Texas, today's biggest prize with 140 delegates at stake. Under the state GOP rules, McCain would need more than 50% of the vote -- statewide and ...

With Obama and Clinton battling for the nomination delegate by delegate, Democrats in Michigan and Florida face increasing pressure to stage some sort of new voting or caucuses as a replay of their party-discredited January primary elections ... ...

" Statewide, the candidates were running a close race, with Obama holding 55 percent of the delegates to Clinton's 45 _ despite Clinton winning the popular vote on March 4 _ according to an unofficial, incomplete delegate tally compiled by the Burnt ...

But, under proportional representation, she will still not have sufficient delegates to deliver a knock-out blow ... Under the complicated US system, each state sends delegates to the two main party conventions in late ...

31--AUSTIN -- As the smoke cleared from this weekend's regional Democratic conventions, Barack Obama emerged with a majority of the state's at-large presidential nominating delegates and possibly a majority of all Texas delegates. But Hillary ...

13--BALI, Indonesia--Former Vice President Al Gore urged delegates at key climate talks in Bali to move forward with a worldwide plan to cut emissions despite efforts by Bush administration negotiators to avoid setting specific emissions reduction ...

First, the campaign cast doubt on the Texas delegate caucuses held Tuesday after the polls closed to distribute a third of the state's 193 pledged delegates ... Dowd said the Clinton camp has an uphill battle trying to persuade the ...

But Bush's electoral appeal among home-state Hispanics four years ago, combined with his failure to generate significant black support, complicates Hillary Rodham Clinton's drive to put a significant dent in Obama's lead in the race for delegates. ...

Besides the 18 district-level delegates, West Virginia's Democrats will be sending 21 others to Denver: * Seven at-large delegates, to be selected by the party executive committee during the state convention ... * Eleven so-called ...

Twenty-four US states were holding primaries, or caucuses, yesterday, with 52% of all pledged Democratic delegates and 41% of the total Republican delegates at stake ... Polls were closing in New York State in the early hours of today with ...

But with both candidates almost evenly splitting delegates nationwide, attention is turning to 796 'super-delegates' - basically influential money bags - whose votes are more personalized than allocated on the basis of popular vote ... But because ...

Democrats allocate most of their delegates proportionately; candidates are awarded a cut of the delegate pie based on their percentage of the vote. It is likely that the losing candidate will still get a substantial share of the ...

" A more sombre Mr Obama, 46, addressing his supporters in San Antonio, Texas, took the longer view: "Whatever happens tonight, we will have nearly the same delegate lead as we did this morning, and we are on our way to winning this nomination ... Mr ...

Last night's win in Mississippi extended Obama's delegate lead going into Pennsylvania, with the Associated Press awarding himsix delegates and saying he would win a clear majority of the 33 up for grabs. In the overall race for the ...