Bernie Sanders had a good night in Indiana — but he still doesn’t have a prayer of clinching the Democratic nomination without stealing away superdelegates from front-runner Hillary Clinton.
He’d need to grab a little over two-thirds of the remaining 933 pledged delegates to take a narrow lead in pledged delegates — which would be nearly impossible, experts say.
To win the nomination, he’d then have to convince superdelegates to ditch her.
“It still continues to be a long, hard slog with Bernie Sanders nipping at her heels, even though there is no real mathematical way he can catch up,” said Patrick Murray, a pollster at Monmouth University.
Sanders, who upset Clinton in the Hoosier State on Tuesday, has 1,401 delegates, including superdelegates, while the former secretary of state has 2,205 — just short of the 2,383 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
She also leads in pledged delegates with 1,683 compared to Sanders’ 1,362.
“What he’s asking at this point is for superdelegates to do something they’ve never done, which is to go against someone who has the lead in the pledged-delegate count [and] someone who is going to have more popular votes than he does,” said Josh Putnam, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia.
“He can certainly continue winning but he’s not going to win by margins that’s going to make a legitimate case for the superdelegates to switch their mind,” Putnam said.



