Today's big meaningless contests
By R. Neal
Created May 6 2008 - 07:58
RCP North Carolina average: Obama +8 [1]. No recent poll has shown an advantage for Clinton. Obama has overcome a Clinton lead of 24 points in November.
RCP Indiana average: Clinton +5 [2]. Only one recent poll shows an advantage for Obama. Obama crept up to a slight 3 point advantage in late April, but Clinton has since erased it.
There are 72 delegates at stake in Indiana, and 115 in North Carolina. Obama currently has 1737 delegates, and Clinton has 1607 (Green Papers estimate [3]). Neither candidate can get to the 2025 needed to nominate today, even if one were to win 100% of the vote in both primaries.
And so it continues.
(The encouraging news is that nearly 32 million people have voted for a Democratic nominee so far, v. 18.5 million for a Republican.)
Links:
[1] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/nc/north_carolina_democratic_primary-275.html
[2] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/in/indiana_democratic_primary-639.html
[3] http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/tally.phtml