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2024 Is The New Magic Number

17 Mar 2008 10:43 am

The Democratic National Committee tells us this morning that the new Magic Number is 2024, thanks to a variety of micro-changes, including the travails of Client #9.


** Bill Foster's election in Illinois's 14 congressional district increases by one the number of superdelegates.

** Andre Carson's election in Indiana 7th congressional district increases by one the number of superdelegates.

** As chronicled here, the number of superdelegates declines by one because ex-DNC chair Ken Curtis retired to Florida from Maine.

** Eliot Spitzer's resignation means that David Paterson can't serve as 2 superdelegates at once, so the number decreases by one.

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I wonder if Obama has a store of committed, but unannounced, superdelegates whose names are released whenever his campaign's in a jam...

Posted by chipfat | March 17, 2008 11:24 AM

Wait, if it's plus 2 and minus 2, wouldn't the number stay the same?

Posted by Arsenio Billingham | March 17, 2008 11:27 AM


What do the super delegates think of Hillbilly having nothing to say when GW Bushie just spent billions of the taxpayer's money bailing out Wall Street millionaires and billionaires?

Posted by D | March 17, 2008 11:48 AM

Rep. Tom Lantos died, which decreased the number from 2025 to 2024.

Posted by JC | March 17, 2008 11:51 AM

Arsenio - Because it is +1, -2.

Posted by socctty | March 17, 2008 11:51 AM

I hear that Margie Williams of Illinois came out for Obama today.

Posted by vietnam vet | March 17, 2008 12:00 PM

If FL and MI delegates were stripped by the DNC, why isn’t the magic number now 1842 rather than 2024?

Posted by bluepaolo | March 17, 2008 1:46 PM

The magic number is now 2024ish rather than the 2207ish it'd be with FL and MI. 2024 (or 2025) already takes FL and MI into account. If they are seated, in whole or in part, the number goes up.

A special election will be held in early April to fill Tom Lantos' seat. Assuming the Dems hold the seat, the count stays the same.

I'm reading this post as 1+1-1-1. Math was never a strong suite, but I get a net 0 and not -1.

Posted by sleepy | March 17, 2008 2:02 PM

Read the title and wondered: What's already so significant about an election in another 16 years?

Posted by C Smith | March 17, 2008 2:18 PM