Obama Won More Delegates than Clinton Yesterday

Published: February 6, 2008, 10:28 am

Last night the Obama camp sent out an email claiming to have "won more states and delegates than Senator Clinton," calling it "a remarkable achievement we can all be proud of." That surprised me, but Mike Allen confirms in The Politico today that the Obama campaign is projecting a nine-delegate win over Clinton in yesterday's contests, 845 to 836. He says that NBC News is backing up the claim by projecting that Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, while Clinton will gain 829 to 838. Clinton was ahead in delegates before yesterday and is generally regarded as being far ahead in superdelegates (party bigwigs whose voting is not controlled by primary or caucus results), so out-gaining Clinton yesterday won't put Obama ahead. What it does accomplish is tightening up an already tight race. In a sense this sets up a real nightmare scenario. If the nomination contest goes to the convention and is decided by the superdelegates, all hell may break loose, with supporters of the

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