http://anothersunnyday.com/2008/02/06/687 it's a good life, end of discussion Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:46:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://anothersunnyday.com/2008/02/06/687/comment-page-1#comment-4504 Justin Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:21:54 +0000 http://anothersunnyday.com/2008/02/06/687#comment-4504 Hmm. Well, the (incomplete) delegate count put out by the AP has Hillary at 1,000 and Obama at 902. So I would say you have a point! Hmm. Well, the (incomplete) delegate count put out by the AP has Hillary at 1,000 and Obama at 902. So I would say you have a point!

]]> http://anothersunnyday.com/2008/02/06/687/comment-page-1#comment-4503 Mad Joy Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:20:33 +0000 http://anothersunnyday.com/2008/02/06/687#comment-4503 That Hillary won the night is very arguable. She did win a lot of delegate-rich states - New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and of course, California - but overall she won 8 states in the night, and Obama won 14. Additionally, many of the states Obama won, he won by a wide margin - for example, he got 80% of the vote in Idaho (which has a whopping 18 pledged delegates... compared to California's 370... lol) and 74% in Alaska and Kansas and 67% in Colorado and Minnesota and 66% in Georgia. Clinton didn't win any states by such a wide margin. Her biggest wins percentagewise were Arkansas (69%) where she was first lady and then New York (57%) where she was a senator. Since this is not an electoral college and most states assign delegates proportionally, this is important. (It's amusing that Hillary Clinton made such a big deal about "winning New Hampshire" - when in the end they both got the same number of delegates, 9 each, from the primary because it was so close!) Also, some of the states that Obama won were quite delegate-rich as well. For example, Illinois (which he won with 64%) has more delegates (153 pledged) than either New Jersey (107) or Massachusetts (93) - and Obama won it by a significantly wider margin than Clinton won New Jersey or Massachusetts. Georgia also sends 87 pledged delegates, which Obama won handily. So I don't think this was a clear win for Hillary at all. That Hillary won the night is very arguable. She did win a lot of delegate-rich states – New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and of course, California – but overall she won 8 states in the night, and Obama won 14. Additionally, many of the states Obama won, he won by a wide margin – for example, he got 80% of the vote in Idaho (which has a whopping 18 pledged delegates… compared to California’s 370… lol) and 74% in Alaska and Kansas and 67% in Colorado and Minnesota and 66% in Georgia. Clinton didn’t win any states by such a wide margin. Her biggest wins percentagewise were Arkansas (69%) where she was first lady and then New York (57%) where she was a senator. Since this is not an electoral college and most states assign delegates proportionally, this is important. (It’s amusing that Hillary Clinton made such a big deal about “winning New Hampshire” – when in the end they both got the same number of delegates, 9 each, from the primary because it was so close!) Also, some of the states that Obama won were quite delegate-rich as well. For example, Illinois (which he won with 64%) has more delegates (153 pledged) than either New Jersey (107) or Massachusetts (93) – and Obama won it by a significantly wider margin than Clinton won New Jersey or Massachusetts. Georgia also sends 87 pledged delegates, which Obama won handily. So I don’t think this was a clear win for Hillary at all.

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