Clinton Camp Says One-Fifth of Delegates Secured for Nomination

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As Hillary Clinton's campaign seeks to project dominance in a field that could soon include Vice President Joe Biden, her top advisers are touting a decisive edge on a little-discussed metric: superdelegate commitments.
At the Democratic National Committee meeting in Minneapolis, where she will speak Friday, senior Clinton campaign officials are claiming that she has already secured one-fifth of the pledges needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination. They come from current and former elected officials, committee officeholders, and other party dignitaries.
The campaign says that Clinton currently has about 130 superdelegates publicly backing her, but a person familiar with recent conversations in Minneapolis said that officials are telling supporters and the undecided in the last few days that private commitments increase that number to more than 440—about 20 percent of the number of delegates she would need to secure the nomination.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/ar...for-nomination

[Peter1469]

They are not bound. They can change their minds.

[zelmo1234]

The Democrats are in a real pickle. Even Trump is getting stronger against Hilary, and yet Hilary is their only shot a winning.

With Sanders or Biden, it is likely that the GOP would pick up enough Senate seats to get very close to the super majority needed to prevent filibuster.

That could spell a constitutional balanced budget amendment ending liberalism as we know it.

Hillary while she may not win the election might prevent that from happening.

The GOP has Trump Issues, but he is getting more and more popular all the time, and doing so without spending money