Yossarian wrote:Winner takes all.
Big picture time: Despite every pundit’s fixation on the notion of momentum, there is a little thing called “delegate allocation” that these primaries are actually supposed to be about. It takes 2,382 delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president, and Iowa possesses only 44 for the taking.
Hillary Clinton’s razor-thin victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses means she and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders are going to split up those delegates, Solomon-style: Clinton will collect 23 delegates and Sanders will win 21. With her advantage in superdelegates - party officials who can support the candidate of their choice, a feature exclusive to the Democrats - Clinton now has a total of 385 delegates, or a little more than 16% of the amount she needs. Sanders has 29.
Granted, delegate-chasing isn’t everything - Clinton tried that in her 2008 campaign against then-senator Barack Obama, and she ended up working for him.
Diluted Dante wrote:Yossarian wrote:Winner takes all.
Actually it's not:
Big picture time: Despite every pundit’s fixation on the notion of momentum, there is a little thing called “delegate allocation” that these primaries are actually supposed to be about. It takes 2,382 delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president, and Iowa possesses only 44 for the taking.
Hillary Clinton’s razor-thin victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses means she and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders are going to split up those delegates, Solomon-style: Clinton will collect 23 delegates and Sanders will win 21. With her advantage in superdelegates - party officials who can support the candidate of their choice, a feature exclusive to the Democrats - Clinton now has a total of 385 delegates, or a little more than 16% of the amount she needs. Sanders has 29.
Granted, delegate-chasing isn’t everything - Clinton tried that in her 2008 campaign against then-senator Barack Obama, and she ended up working for him.
He's still tweeting along those lines. It's about Cruz's campaign apparently saying Carson had dropped out and supported Cruz, and saying Trump supports Obamacare.poprock wrote:Trump continues to be hilarious. A tweet he posted, then deleted.
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