Barack Obama, garnering an overall majority of pledged delegates on May 20, defeated Sen.
Thirty-one pledged delegates are up for grabs Tuesday in Montana and South Dakota.
But Obama won more states, 13, and leads Clinton in pledged delegates, according to CNN calculations.
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The focus of the Democratic race has moved to the superdelegates because they outnumber the remaining pledged delegates.
There are only 217 pledged delegates up for grabs in the remaining contests.
In the past the nominee has usually emerged well before the convention with the necessary majority of pledged delegates.
Obama holds a commanding lead in the number of pledged delegates awarded from primaries and caucuses: 1, 592 to Clinton's 1, 424.
For the second time this week, Clinton hinted that even pledged delegates awarded in primaries and caucuses are up for grabs.
Clinton currently trails Obama across all fronts -- superdelegates, pledged delegates and the popular vote, according to CNN's latest estimates.
By suspending instead of dropping out, Clinton would technically remain a candidate, entitled to keep statewide pledged delegates and district-level delegates.
The focus of the Democratic race has largely turned to the superdelegates because they outnumber the remaining pledged delegates up for grabs.
Before Pennsylvania, he had an edge of more than 160 pledged delegates.
Because Clinton suspended her campaign instead of dropping out, she held on to the pledged delegates she earned in the primaries and caucuses.
Unpledged delegates in the Republican Party do not have to indicate a candidate preference, but a majority are elected just like pledged delegates.
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Well ahead though Mr Obama may be among pledged delegates, the decisions of the unelected superdelegates to the nominating convention will be decisive.
Two hundred seventeen pledged delegates are up for grabs in the remaining six contests: West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota.
Clinton tells Inskeep that the Michigan and Florida pledged delegates should count because both are seen as key battleground states in the general election.
If so, according to an article in Salon, an online magazine, Mrs Clinton would now be leading Mr Obama in pledged delegates by 1, 743-1, 257.
There's the pledged delegates, the delegates that are assigned from the actual voting that goes on in the states, and then there are the superdelegates.
As you point out, she would have to do better than anybody ever possibly expects her to do to take a lead in the pledged delegates.
Obama leads the New York senator when it comes to pledged delegates, the popular vote and states won in the primaries and caucuses held to date.
Because of the way the Democratic Party divvies up the state's 158 pledged delegates, she is likely to get perhaps 10 or 12 more than Obama.
Anticipating his victory in Oregon, Obama declared that he has won a majority of pledged delegates, and that this "put us within reach" of the Democratic presidential nomination.
To distribute pledged delegates, we use a pure percentage breakdown.
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He had 1, 378 pledged delegates and superdelegates to Clinton's 1, 269.
After Tuesday's contests in North Carolina and Indiana, there were 276 superdelegates who had not committed -- with only 237 pledged delegates up for grabs in the remaining six contests.
But Obama will say, look, I have won among the regular folk in the land, and you should follow the inspiration of those regular people who have chosen these pledged delegates.
Facing an insurmountable lead among pledged delegates, Clinton is now counting on the remaining superdelegates to push her over the finish line, a proposition her campaign admits is a tall order.
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Currently, Obama has 1, 845 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1, 686.
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