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How Will the Democratic Nomination Be Settled? Barack Obama has won 1,178 pledged Democratic delegates in primaries and caucuses, and Hillary Clinton has won 1,024, according to the Associated Press. That leaves 1,025 delegates yet to be awarded. It's possible that the Democratic nomination may not be settled until the party's convention in August.

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Election 2008

How Will the Democratic Nomination Be Settled?

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How Will the Democratic Nomination Be Settled?

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Barack Obama has won 1,178 pledged Democratic delegates in primaries and caucuses, and Hillary Clinton has won 1,024, according to the Associated Press. That leaves 1,025 delegates yet to be awarded. It's possible that the Democratic nomination may not be settled until the party's convention in August.

Robert Siegel talks with Ralph Dawson, a Democratic National Committee member from New York, about this possibility and about how the remaining delegates could be split up.