| 16 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago Clinton works to keep superdelegates from jumping ship
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(Prat Thakkar, NECN) - The math is looking more daunting to the Clinton campaign. The Democratic nomination fight is becoming as much a psychological one as a numerical one. The Obama camp is pitching him as presumptive nominee, while Clinton asks supporters to stand firm.
They were a room full of democrats divided by their buttons. Hillary supporters and Obama supporters, mingling together Saturday, as they gathered to elect delegates to the national convention. The buzzword of the morning, unity.
With less than a month left on the primary calendar, on the campaign trail the division continued. Senator Hillary Clinton pressing on in New York, Senator Barack Obama in Oregon. But with Obama leading in superdelegates and delegates, some Obama supporters have already begun speaking of him as the presumptive nominee.
That leaves the Clinton camp needing to fight both the mathematical battle and the psychological one. Insisting the race is far from over and trying to keep superdelegates from jumping ship
As clinton works to make a big showing for the remaining six contests, her supporters are beginning to make another argument... that delegate counts don't tell the story.
NECN's Prat Thakkar has more.
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