Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.
This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And 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.
It makes more sense why Hillary is fighting this out until the end. I suppose the Clinton campaign's hope is that they win enough big states and shift momentum to get the pledged Obama delegates to reconsider. This could get a lot messier after April 22nd if Clinton takes Pennsylvania like she is supposed to.
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