Dustin James ([info]dustinjames) wrote,
@ 2008-05-25 12:21:00
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Seriously:



Is there any stronger evidence that 2012 needs a massive overhaul vs the Democratic contests clusterfuck that is 2008?

Source: Jay Cost @ Real Clear Politics

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[info]neurotic_orchid
2008-05-26 07:13 am UTC (link)
0_0 Are you effing kidding me?

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[info]dustinjames
2008-05-26 08:01 pm UTC (link)
The graph is a little deceiving because it's only counting up by 200's, it looks like a HUGE blowout, but still, that's almost a 10% difference.

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[info]altf4osu
2008-05-27 12:37 am UTC (link)
I'm slightly confused...

Doesn't this mean that Obama has more voters per pledged delegate, which would be a good thing, whereas Clinton has more delegates and less voters, so therefore the pledged delegates are going against the voters for Clinton as compared to Obama?

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[info]dustinjames
2008-05-27 02:17 am UTC (link)
I've read your response like 10 times and I don't understand.

It means that she has more voters per pledged delegate than Obama does. To a degree of about 10%.

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[info]altf4osu
2008-05-27 04:12 am UTC (link)
So I was thinking backwards, ... not really sure how to explain it, but I was thinking that she had more votes for each pledged delegate.


Although now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure this is a real great comparison. She has more pledged voters per pledged delegate, but this says nothing about the number of voters total or the number of delegates. It doesn't have any hard numbers to compare actual number of voters and actual number of delegates.

If Hillary has 800 delegates, then she has around 9.44 million votes, but if Barack has 1000 total delegates, then he'd have 10.5 million votes... Without an actual number of pledged delegates listed, the graph really doesn't make any sense to me as a good comparison of anything. Am I missing something?

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