Apr 4, 2008

Just a Thought

If the Democratic primaries so far had been winner-take-all, then Hillary Clinton would be leading by 167 delegates.

If the Democrats were to allot their current state delegate totals in a winner-take-all format, Clinton would actually have a significant delegate advantage. Despite having won only 14 recognized contests to Obama's 30, Clinton would currently have a 120 (1738 to 1618) total delegate lead and a remarkable 167 (1427 to 1260) pledged delegate lead. These numbers give Texas' "prima-caucus" delegates to Clinton and do not include Florida, Michigan or the 693 total delegates and 566 pledged delegates still to be won in the next few months. (from the Link)

But, it's not. Just that it COULD be in a parallel universe where the Democratic Party trusted their members to vote for a candidate, and didn't have to rely on SuperDelegates to trump all that Democracy going on.

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