Temporary
I do not know how much I will use this space, as most of my readers will probably not even know about it.
If you have come here via the comment I placed at the main blog, please drop a comment in here just so I know someone has tracked this down!
Thanks for your support and patience.
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Now as long you stopped by...
The Republican Party quickly saw a consensus emerge among its primary voters in favor of John McCain, right? Wrong!
Through Super Tuesday, percentage of votes cast:
38.3 McCain
32.6 Romney
19.0 Huckabee
04.5 Paul
Those 'conservatives' who don't like McCain and are suddenly all nostalgic about the great Romney run should demand their party use PR! If the Republican delegates were allocated proportionally, this race would be nowhere near over.
Speaking of "PR" what about the Democrats? Percentages of the vote cast so far:
47.1 Obama
46.6 Clinton
03.4 Edwards
Yet if the news accounts are right that Clinton has a lead in delegates, then evidently the Democrats don't really use PR after all. Their process has reversed the plurality!
(The Dem vote totals are Super Tuesday plus NH and SC. No delegates were awarded--so far, anyway--from Mich and Fla, and no actual human beings casting votes are recorded in Iowa or Nevada.)
If you are interested in the Super-smart institutional delegates that the 'Democratic' Party may be entrusting this decision to rather than that populist process of elected delegates, go to http://superdelegates.org/Main_Page.
If you have come here via the comment I placed at the main blog, please drop a comment in here just so I know someone has tracked this down!
Thanks for your support and patience.
________
Now as long you stopped by...
The Republican Party quickly saw a consensus emerge among its primary voters in favor of John McCain, right? Wrong!
Through Super Tuesday, percentage of votes cast:
38.3 McCain
32.6 Romney
19.0 Huckabee
04.5 Paul
Those 'conservatives' who don't like McCain and are suddenly all nostalgic about the great Romney run should demand their party use PR! If the Republican delegates were allocated proportionally, this race would be nowhere near over.
Speaking of "PR" what about the Democrats? Percentages of the vote cast so far:
47.1 Obama
46.6 Clinton
03.4 Edwards
Yet if the news accounts are right that Clinton has a lead in delegates, then evidently the Democrats don't really use PR after all. Their process has reversed the plurality!
(The Dem vote totals are Super Tuesday plus NH and SC. No delegates were awarded--so far, anyway--from Mich and Fla, and no actual human beings casting votes are recorded in Iowa or Nevada.)
If you are interested in the Super-smart institutional delegates that the 'Democratic' Party may be entrusting this decision to rather than that populist process of elected delegates, go to http://superdelegates.org/Main_Page.
posted by MSS at 10:07 AM
5 Comments:
I actually got here from Steven's link.
Strange! Given that Obama has done well in caucuses (low V/S) and Clinton in primaries (high V/S), one might expect the opposite situation.
Hope you can nurse F&V back to health soon!
Best wishes for a speedy return to your orchard. I got here via Jack's post on The Democratic Piece.
Came via the note in the feed. I'd also noticed the lack of activity, and was checking the site directly occasionally (in case the feed had issues).
I got here from F&V's link.
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