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Obama Will Declare Victory on May 20  

Posted May 8, 08 11:29 AM CDT in Politics    Editor's Choice

(newser) – Barack Obama plans to lay claim to his party’s nomination on May 20, the day that votes in Kentucky and Oregon will net him a majority of pledged delegates, a top aide tells Politico, setting up what David Paul Kuhn calls “a train wreck waiting to happen.” For at least 11 days—until the DNC meets on whether and how to seat Michigan and Florida’s outlaw delegates—the Clinton camp will dispute it.

The Clinton campaign is arguing that the current pledged delegate majority—one adviser called 1,627 a “phony number”—is illegitimate, insisting that 1,784 is the authentic figure. An Obama memo warns superdels to expect “new and wildly creative scenarios to emerge” from the rival camp, and Politico expects a showdown in 12 days’ time.

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Obama Will Declare Victory on May 20
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, arrives at a primary election night rally in Raleigh, N.C.,Tuesday, May 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Obama Will Declare Victory on May 20
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Obama Will Declare Victory on May 20
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, talks to his communications director, Robert Gibbs.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Obama Will Declare Victory on May 20
Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Barack Obama.   (Getty Images)
Obama Will Declare Victory on May 20
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets supporters in Raleigh, N.C.,Tuesday, May 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Obama Will Declare Victory on May 20
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, shakes hands with a supporter after talking to diners at Four Seasons Family Restaurant in Greenwood, Ind., Tuesday, May 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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