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Article: Clinton camp to go for Obama's pledged delegates?
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- February 21, 2008
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HILLARY Clinton's presidential campaign intends to go after
delegates Barack Obama has won in the caucuses and primaries if she
needs them to win the Democratic nomination. This strategy was
confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official Monday. I am not
talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big shots who are not
pledged to anybody. I am talking about getting pledged delegates to
switch sides.
What? Isn't that impossible? A pledged delegate is pledged to a
particular candidate and cannot switch, right?
Wrong.
Pledged delegates are not really pledged at all, not even on the
first ballot. This has been an open secret in the party for years,
but it has never really mattered because ...