primitives squibble-squabble, wiggle-waggle their armpits, about delegate count

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511502321

Oh my.

DLnyc (2,340 posts)    Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:48 AM

In case anyone is interested in the delegates gained tonight (rather than states)
 
Although we all get into the excitement of winning and losing states, the Democratic nomination is apparently to be decided by delegates, not by number of states won. Winning a state by a couple of percentage points does not net you a lot more delegates. And in fact you could come out 'winning' a state but getting fewer delegates, due to the algorithms different states use. Here are numbers I have found so far, on Green Papers:

. . . . Clinton . . . Sanders
FL___93_______57
NC___61______46
OH__78_______65
IL___43_______49
MO__31_______34
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___306_______251

So looks like Clinton will increase her lead by about 50 or 60 delegates, not quite the wipeout that some people are trying to make it seem like. Interesting to me is that Sanders may come out of Illinois with more delegates than Hillary despite that we will be told he 'lost' that state.

edit to add: and apparently we will also be told she 'won' Missouri, although it looks like Sanders will get more delegates!

It's a long thread, much disagreement.

New Earth (9,572 posts)    Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:49 AM

1. thank you for this!
 
that's definitely not a wipeout.

DLnyc (2,340 posts)    Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:55 AM

9. Yes, not at all a wipeout. We were told she would close all chances for Sanders tonight.
 
Instead she got a small bump! 

FourScore (9,183 posts)    Wed Mar 16, 2016, 03:06 AM

55. They were saying on CNN and MSNBC that she would get AT LEAST 100 more after tonight.
 
Thank you so much for this post!

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griffi94 (1,765 posts)    Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:51 AM

4. yeah bernie won
 
by finishing second and losing ground via delegates

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SidDithers (39,311 posts)    Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:53 AM

7. Those aren't complete numbers...
 
There are 691 delegates being awarded tonight. Your total is only 557. You're missing 134 delegates.

Hillary's gain will be closer to 105 or 110.

Which really is quite a wipeout. 

Gregorian (23,015 posts)  Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:57 AM 

15. That's more like it. Thanks.

And on it goes for quite a while, although Sidney's right.

However, at the very beginning of this thread, during the first ten seconds of reading the original post, franksolich grew skeptical about the political and civic knowledge of the Bernie bully, the DLnyc primitive.

Although we all get into the excitement of winning and losing states, the Democratic nomination is apparently to be decided by delegates, not by number of states won.

"apparently."

And apparently the DLnyc primitive originally thought the nomination was decided by the number of states won.

Which is about par for the course, for the political and civic knowledge of Bernie bullies, who don't know shit about anything.

[Delmar]

Response to DLnyc (Original post)Wed Mar 16, 2016, 02:31 AM
Cassiopeia (1,945 posts)
50. These numbers are still working out.

It's not this close, but it's still closer than polling expected.

It's not over, we've just arrived to the point where Sanders starts winning and winning by bigger margins.

Bernie is going to be doing so much winning and winning that the Bernie bullies are going to start to get tired of winning.