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Counting Delegates

Sen. Barack Obama needs fewer than 200 delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination, not counting the results from disqualified votes in Michigan and Florida. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is pushing to count the results from those states, though the campaigns and state and national party officials have failed to agree on whether, or how, to count them. Below is a look at where the race stands under scenarios being discussed.

Counting Delegates

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