Wednesday, January 09, 2008

The Real Primary Results

In all the election coverage I've heard so far it's been mostly "Obama won" or "Hillary won" or "McCain won" or "Romney is second again". The problem is, it's just not true. What the primaries are doing is choosing delegates and in the race of pledged delegates Obama is winning by 1 (Obama 25, Hillary 24) and Romney is winning by 6 (Romney 24, Huckabee 18, McCain 10). Last night in NH Obama got 12 delegates and Hillary only 11, no I don't really know how that worked. McCain isn't really 1 for 2, he's solidly in 3rd. And while it wasn't widely reported, the Republicans had a caucus in Wyoming and McCain didn't get any delegates there. Giuliani has only 1 unpledged delegate, behind Ron Paul who has 2 pledged delegates.

There are also something called super-delegates. They don't get pledged via primaries and can vote for whoever they want at the convention. But somehow CNN has some of them pledged per candidate and with that Hillary has 183, Obama 78 and Edwards 52.

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