Kerry Still Needs More Than 600 Delegates

[BruinAlum]

Kerry Still Needs More Than 600 Delegates

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts needs slightly more than 600 delegates to the Democratic National Convention to officially become the party's presidential nominee.
Kerry has collected at least 1,557 delegates with victories in 27 of the first 30 Democratic electoral contests, leaving him as the presumptive nominee to face President Bush in the general election, a tabulation by CNN showed on Thursday.

To secure the presidential nomination at the national convention in July, a candidate needs to amass 2,162 delegates out of a possible 4,322.

Even if Kerry won all of the 547 delegates in contests being held on Tuesday in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, he would still fall about 60 delegates short of the total needed for the nomination.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4500892

Anyone know how many delegates are left? I thought I had a link to a website for the remaining states but cant seem to find anything on this.

Kerry needs at least 605 delegates according to this article - how many possible delegates remain in the 20 states left to have primaries, and how many uncommitted delegates are there that could potentially swing to Kerry?

[MAlibdem]

1. plenty

thousands

[BruinAlum]

3. There are thousands of delegates left for the taking, you mean??

That seems overestimated to me?? There's only 20 states left.

:shrug:

[sangh0]

6. A large share of the delegates are super-delegates

not beholden to any one state.

[yardwork]

2. Choosing the party's nominee is different from an election.....

The party doesn't have to go with the highest delegate-winner, because the delegates don't have to vote as they are assigned.

In other words, if something were to happen to make the Democratic Party decide not to choose Kerry as the nominee, the delegates could cast their vote for another nominee during the convention.

There have been brokered conventions where the nominee was chosen at the convention. This is obviously less democratic than using the primary results, but Dems will accept it if it is necessary.

At this point, as long as Kerry has the momentum, and gets the most delegates, and has the general support of the party, he will be the nominee. Barring a catastrophic event in Kerry's campaign, he will be the nominee. This is not the year for infighting at the Democratic National Convention!

Almost all the candidates recognize this, which is why most of them have been so "nice" to one another this year. If you think this year has been bad, you should have been around during other Democratic primary seasons!!

[OKNancy]

4. Bush has only half of the delegates he needs too

but I think it's pretty certain he will be the nominee. Kerry will be the nominee for the Democratic party!

[Nicholas_J]

5. There are still

Over 500 superdelegates available, and since Kerry is now the defacto delegate, you can expect the DNC to start requesting that they give their endorsement to Kerry. Since he already has more than a quaters of the 801 superdelegates, the rest will be shortly forthcoming.

[BruinAlum]

7. I was still hoping to get a delegate map out of this.

Anyone have a link? I know I used to have one and I got it here.