Posted by Jed Lewison on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 12:07 PM Pacific

If Clinton doesn't win Texas and Ohio, will she concede to Obama?

On ABC's Good Morning America, Hillary Clinton seemed to back away from her husband's suggestion that if she doesn't win Ohio and Texas, she can't win the nomination.

In the process, Clinton again implicitly embraced the idea of superdelegates overturning the popular vote. In the event that she does lose either state, that's the only way she could win.

She explicitly referred to the 2,025 delegates needed to win a convention floor fight, indicating that she rejects the idea that the candidate who hits the magic number of 1,627 pledged delegates -- a majority of democratically selected delegates -- should become the nominee.

If Clinton doesn't win Texas and Ohio, will she concede to Obama?

On ABC's Good Morning America, Hillary Clinton seemed to back away from her husband's suggestion that if she doesn't win Ohio and Texas, she can't win the nomination.

In the process, Clinton again implicitly embraced the idea of superdelegates overturning the popular vote. In the event that she does lose either state, that's the only way she could win.

She explicitly referred to the 2,025 delegates needed to win a convention floor fight, indicating that she rejects the idea that the candidate who hits the magic number of 1,627 pledged delegates -- a majority of democratically selected delegates -- should become the nominee.

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