Slate does the math

This was a bit of an eye opener. Slate.com has a delegate calculator that shows the pledged delegate count based on percentage of the popular vote in the remaining contests.

If they're right - Sen. Clinton has no chance of catching Sen. Obama in pledged delegates:


This is ignoring Florida and Michigan re-vote scenarios. The snapshot above assumes that Sen. Clinton carries every state by 30 points and ties in North Carolina (where Obama is currently ahead in the polls).

Due respect to Sen. Clinton - but this is an impossible scenario. She can pin her hopes on the superdelegates, but the remaining primaries are nothing for her campaign to look forward to.

I guess she can hope to rack up a string of victories and beg the superdelegates to save her bid - but that's it.