Delegate Count Leaving Bernie Sanders With Steep Climb - NYT - (CLINTON GROUP)

Delegate Count Leaving Bernie Sanders With Steep Climb
By PATRICK HEALY FEB. 21, 2016

"...Mrs. Clinton has 502 delegates to Mr. Sanders’s 70; 2,383 are needed to win the nomination. These numbers include delegates won in state contests and superdelegates, who can support any candidate. She is likely to win a delegate jackpot from the overwhelmingly black and Hispanic areas in the Southern-dominated Super Tuesday primaries on March 1, when 11 states will vote and about 880 delegates will be awarded.

Since delegates are awarded proportionally based on vote tallies in congressional districts and some other areas, only blowout victories yield large numbers of delegates. And Mrs. Clinton is better positioned than Mr. Sanders to win big in more delegate-rich districts, like those carved out to ensure minority Democrats in Congress, where she remains popular.

“She could effectively end the race in less than two weeks’ time on Super Tuesday,” said David Wasserman, a top analyst for The Cook Political Report, who has been closely tracking the delegate race..."

"...“By our math, Bernie Sanders needed to win 19 of Nevada’s 35 delegates to keep pace for the nomination nationally. Instead, Clinton won at least 19 delegates and possibly 20,” Mr. Wasserman said. “This is the first contest that’s provided real reassurance that she’s still the front-runner, and it robs Sanders of the one thing he had going for him recently — momentum.”

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