# Obama clinches Democratic nomination

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-clinches-democratic-nomination/617763>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [April 4, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-clinches-democratic-nomination/617763 "2012-04-04T01:19:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-clinches-democratic-nomination/617763/21 "2012-04-05T16:09:46Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> But, just for the fun of it, here’s who the Dem nominees would have been in recent years if they had the Republican habit of nominating the previous primary season’s runner-up (skipping years when an incumbent Democrat was running for re-election):

Not to start this again, but the existence of this habit is debatable.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-clinches-democratic-nomination/617763/22 "2012-04-05T16:50:09Z")

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Wait, are we including committed superdelegates in the count?

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