To continue with your example, If the statewide caucusers have a 7 to 1 influence on delegates, and the at-large caucusers have a 5 to l influence, let's compute THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE that being an at-large caucuser has over being a statewide one. So we take 1/5 divided by 1/7, 7/5, and write it as a percentage. 140%. So the at-large caucus goers have 40% more clout than the statewide ones, given your assumptions. That is a big difference, but one also has to consider the actual number of caucusers and the number of delegates to be chosen. This certainly is a strange way to do things, but the caucuses are strange to begin with!

greg bachelis

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