Boom! Hillary just hit the magic number!

[Chichiri]

She is now +453 for Super Tuesday, which means she will exceed her demographic-adjusted target and pull even farther away from Bernie.

Now to go for the second magic number, +478, beyond which Bernie can no longer achieve a win under his worst case scenario.

[Cha]

1. KICK! Thanks Chichiri!

[Democrats Ascendant]

2. Awesome!

I'm curious about your source. I'd love to follow the numbers myself.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Steve Kornacki gave her 525, although I have absolutely no idea how he wound up there. I keep....

waiting for them to replay that segment. He says she'll be halfway to her goal once you add in the SD's.

[Lucinda]

4. :)

[ismnotwasm]

5. That's what I was waiting for!

Nice

[Democrats Ascendant]

6. Higher!

Wikipedia (following the DNC and DelegateTracker) have her at 544, while Huffpost has her at 554. DelegateTracker has it at a beautiful 1001 with Supers.

[Thinkingabout]

7. Great news, thanks

[livetohike]

8. Great news to wake up to this morning! Thanks

Chichiri

[SunSeeker]

9. CNN.com says Hillary has 1055 total delegates to Sanders' 418!

[CajunBlazer]

10. A question please

RrealClearPolitics shows Hillary winning 543 delegates through Super Tuesday with Bernie winning 349 so far.

So how does that 478 number figure into this?

[Chichiri]

12. 478 comes from a model...

by a Bernie supporter at Dailykos.com named MattTX, who calculated a few scenarios under which Bernie could still win. His worst case scenario had Hillary winning no more than 478 delegates on Super Tuesday. At last check, she took 505.

[pandr32]

14. So HC is already past any point BS can win from?

If that is true why is he still trying?

[misterhighwasted]

16. $$$$

And the Nadar factor.

[CajunBlazer]

18. Many a candidate clings to the idea that he can win...

... and will hold on with all his might as the rope of possibility continues to slip through his rope burned hands until he reached the end of that rope and falls. Even then many take quite some time to hit the ground of reality hard enlighten to come to their senses.

With Bernie, it is more than that. I think he will continue his campaign as long has he can persuade his donors to keep sending him money to continue his quixotic quest. He is a true believer and his candidacy is a platform from which he can continue to preach his message of revolution and he won't give that up until he absolutely can go no further. And that's probably until the convention.

[Chichiri]

20. Mathematically, Bernie can still catch up.

Realistically, however, it would involve some kind of catastrophe (which Bernie fans are hoping for and/or expecting in the form of an indictment for . . . something).

[Treant]

11. The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results

They're currently giving her +486 (the math is pretty arcane, I'm sure), so she soared past the second target and is still going...with delegates still out to be apportioned!

[fleabiscuit]

13. K&R

[oasis]

15. She's got this one dialed.

[William769]

17. Check out my front page for updated counts.

http://hillaryclintonsupporters.com/forum/

Pledged delegates to Hillary is 587. Super Delegates to Hillary is 468. That gives Hillary a total of 1055.

Pledged delegates to Sanders is 397. Super Delegates to Sanders is 21. That gives Sanders a total of 418.

[Chichiri]

19. My numbers are Hillary 596, Bernie 399.

I'm getting them from FiveThirtyEight.

[William769]

21. Mine have been updated again.

Clinton 606 468 1074

Sanders 405 21 426

[Her Sister]

22. some don't include American Samoa

could be reason for some of the discrepancies