Wednesday, March 12, 2008

California Primary Recount Adds Delegates to Obama Column

Confirmed: Obama Did Gain Delegates From California Vote Count
TPM Election Central
By Eric Kleefeld - March 11, 2008, 12:23PM

We've just confirmed with the California Democratic Party that reports in the blogosphere, which said that Barack Obama picked up additional delegates from the vote count in California, are correct.

Election Central spoke to Bob Mulholland, campaign adviser to the California Dems, and he confirmed that the delegate estimates for the California primary have been revised from the initial media estimates.

To put this in perspective, over one-million votes were yet to be counted when the media estimates were first made. Those estimates had Hillary at 207 delegates to Obama's 163. The new projection: A small alteration to Hillary 203, Obama 167, which Mulholland said is not expected to change when the election is officially certified this Saturday.

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