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Re: The Real Math Favors Hillary Clinton
by Alessandro Machi
"Games at the start of the season count just as much as games at the end, don't they?"

Not according to the Obama camp, the ones during February were the most important, the ones in January (Michigan and Florida), and the ones from March on weren't supposed to count either.

I answered the "next time" question by pointing out that there were several controversies in the caucus votes. Nevada held many of their caucuses along the strip and disaffected the outlying communities, Washington state's caucus was comically out of whack when compared to their own non binding primary, Texas had statewide school tests the very next morning after their caucus, I doubt either parent would leave their kids on such an important night of studying to go to a caucus, this was bore out by Obama getting more delegates even though he lost the popular vote!

Caucus may not get more delegates, but they use a microscopically smaller sample to select each delegate. On average 2000 votes per delegate versus a much more robust and well rounded primary procedure in which approximately 12,000 votes select a delegate. Barrack Obama gets outvoted by nearly 100,000 votes when California and ALL the caucus states are combined, yet Barrack Obama ends up with 136 more delegates.

Add in Florida and the race is a dead heat.

This all about the extra surge Barrack got back in February to make it look like Hillary was just out for herself by staying in the race. Several internet groups including Huffington Post, Daily Kos, MoveOn plus radio stations such as Air America have been non stop against Hillary Clinton and with all that has gone against her, her numbers are much to strong to be discounted.

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