The Delegate Fight: Obama Clinches!

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What do you need from the Seattle area, Erc?

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I think I'll have that for you when you get back.

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Didn't the Obama camp confirm that rumor?  Whatever happened to them?

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3/5, last Wednesday.  What happened?

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I disagree with the use of the Washington primary to claim that the various biases of counting the primary votes of caucuses cancel themselves out. You have a perfectly fine model with Texas where both the primary and the caucuses counted. Use that.

Some people get to double-vote?

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I disagree with the use of the Washington primary to claim that the various biases of counting the primary votes of caucuses cancel themselves out. You have a perfectly fine model with Texas where both the primary and the caucuses counted. Use that.

Some people get to double-vote?

What's with the obtuse response? I'm saying that Texas is irreplaceable when it comes to any analysis of the difference in results between primary and caucuses.

I didn't mean to be obtuse.  I was asking an honest question.

I'm objecting to the idea that it's "perfectly fine" because it artificially inflates the vote total in given states.  That's not to say any system is perfectly fine, but there is nothing "perfect" about that.

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I'm not advocating double counting anything.

Counting both the primary and caucus would essentially be doing that, especially in Texas, no?

Or, more specifically, giving one voter twice the representation as in another state.

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I'm not advocating counting both the Texas primary and the caucuses. I'm responding to Erc's analysis on how to put primary and caucuses on an equal footing for the purpose of determining who would be the "legitimate" winner of the Democratic nomination.

Oh, yikes.

Zoom, right over my head.

Sorry.

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I left a message with them earlier today to find out.

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AP is reporting that provisional ballots have given Obama two "uncalled" pledged delegates in Ohio.  I'm not sure whether you have that in your numbers, Erc.

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Erc, you are the man.