Clinton Camp: Primaries Won’t Put Obama Over The Top

Wed, May 28, 2008 - 11:47 AM

WASHINGTON – Harold Ickes, a senior advisor to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton predicts that neither Clinton nor Barack Obama will have enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nominations after the final primaries next week.

It will come down to wooing the super delegates, he and other Clinton campaign aides say.

In a conference call with reporters just completed, the Clinton team said it will push for nothing less than the full seating of Florida’s and Michigan’s delegates during Saturday’s national party Rules and ByLaws Committee meeting. But even if that does not happen, Ickes said the race is not over.

“It always interests me that members of the Fourth Estate write that this nomination is over. It is not over,” said Ickes, of the media.

“By midnight June 3, neither candidate will have achieved the number to clinch the nomination.”

“Yes, we obviously believe there is a path to the nomination and we are following it,” added Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson.

“We believe that there is a strong case to be made to the super delegates based on electability …,” he said, adding Clinton wins that argument.