EMUJeff
February 6th, 2008, 2:56 pm
(Repbulican Page to follow)
As you are more than well aware unless you are in a cave with a internet connection that bans news sites, yesterday's primary votes have left the nomination for both parties in the air to some degree, with some results still not fully in. Here are the final results as the states complete ballot counts.
Let's start with the February 4th standings:
Senator Clinton......249 delegates (201 superdelegates)
Senator Obama.....173 delegates (110 superdelegates)
Senator Edwards....26 delegates (0 superdelegates)
Per Reutersnews.com
DEMOCRATS (total needed for nomination 2,025)
-Hillary Clinton 845
-Barack Obama 765
Though the Democratic Primary system awards delegates to it's candidates in a proportional way to the popular vote, there are various ways these proportions are addressed.
Firstly, as is true in all Democratic primaries, unless a candidate obtains 15% or more of the overall vote, they don't receive any delegates. This means that the number of delegates awarded don't directly correspond to the overall percentage.
Additionally in some states add an additional layer of process. California awards 241 of it's 370 delegates are by popular vote into districts that are each given even or odd numbers of delegates. Effectively, in the odd numbered districts, obtaining more than 50% of the vote entitles the candidate to 2 delegates whle the 49% candidate obtains 1. This means that a candidate who receives the majority of votes state wide could still get less than half of these delegates if they were beat by small margins in many districts, but won by larger margins in a few. Conversely, if a candidate receives a small margin state wide but wins many of these divisions by a small amount they can obtain almost 65% of the delegates for a 51% popular vote.
The remaining 129 delegates are awarded proportional to the whole state.
It's this kind of playing with the numbers that leaves people like me searching for the aspirin.
Anyway, the point is that when the totals for that state are released the delegates won't directly correspond to the vote percentage. It's not a misprint, it's just the goofy system some states use to award delegates.
Lastly, (hang in there we're almost done) Senator Edwards shows up in quite a few of these states because he pulled out after the ballots were printed. Some of the votes may have been absentees who voted and mailed in their ballots before he left the campaign.
With that being written, here are the final results from the states who have reported...
The Delegate totals below (sources: CNN and Reuters) are not additional to the totals listed above, but part of them.
State.....Vote totals
Candidate................Vote Percentage.........Delegates
Delaware....96,341
Senator Obama............53%...................9
Senator Clinton............42%...................6
Senator Biden................3%...................0
Senator Edwards............1%..................0
Missouri....823,754
Senator Obama............49%.................30
Senator Clinton.............48%.................30
Senator Edwards............2%...................0
Connecticut....350,595
Senator Clinton.............51%................25
Senator Obama.............47%................22
Senator Edwards.............1%.................0
Idaho....21,224
Senator Obama.............79%................15
Senator Clinton..............17%.................3
Senator Edwards.............1%.................0
(Senator Clinton barely excaped losing her delegates here, had she not obtained more than 15% of the vote)
Kansas....36,695
Senator Obama..............74%...............23
Senator Clinton...............26%................9
Massachusetts....1,244,133
Senator Clinton...............56%...............52
Senator Obama...............41%...............36
Senator Edwards..............2%.................0
North Dakota....18,856
Senator Obama...............61%.................8
Senator Clinton...............37%.................5
Senator Edwards..............2%.................0
Oklahoma....401,230
Senator Clinton..............55%................24
Senator Obama..............31%................14
Senator Edwards............10%.................0
Tennessee....614,096
Senator Clinton..............54%................34
Senator Obama..............41%................21
Senator Edwards.............4%..................0
EMUJeff
As you are more than well aware unless you are in a cave with a internet connection that bans news sites, yesterday's primary votes have left the nomination for both parties in the air to some degree, with some results still not fully in. Here are the final results as the states complete ballot counts.
Let's start with the February 4th standings:
Senator Clinton......249 delegates (201 superdelegates)
Senator Obama.....173 delegates (110 superdelegates)
Senator Edwards....26 delegates (0 superdelegates)
Per Reutersnews.com
DEMOCRATS (total needed for nomination 2,025)
-Hillary Clinton 845
-Barack Obama 765
Though the Democratic Primary system awards delegates to it's candidates in a proportional way to the popular vote, there are various ways these proportions are addressed.
Firstly, as is true in all Democratic primaries, unless a candidate obtains 15% or more of the overall vote, they don't receive any delegates. This means that the number of delegates awarded don't directly correspond to the overall percentage.
Additionally in some states add an additional layer of process. California awards 241 of it's 370 delegates are by popular vote into districts that are each given even or odd numbers of delegates. Effectively, in the odd numbered districts, obtaining more than 50% of the vote entitles the candidate to 2 delegates whle the 49% candidate obtains 1. This means that a candidate who receives the majority of votes state wide could still get less than half of these delegates if they were beat by small margins in many districts, but won by larger margins in a few. Conversely, if a candidate receives a small margin state wide but wins many of these divisions by a small amount they can obtain almost 65% of the delegates for a 51% popular vote.
The remaining 129 delegates are awarded proportional to the whole state.
It's this kind of playing with the numbers that leaves people like me searching for the aspirin.
Anyway, the point is that when the totals for that state are released the delegates won't directly correspond to the vote percentage. It's not a misprint, it's just the goofy system some states use to award delegates.
Lastly, (hang in there we're almost done) Senator Edwards shows up in quite a few of these states because he pulled out after the ballots were printed. Some of the votes may have been absentees who voted and mailed in their ballots before he left the campaign.
With that being written, here are the final results from the states who have reported...
The Delegate totals below (sources: CNN and Reuters) are not additional to the totals listed above, but part of them.
State.....Vote totals
Candidate................Vote Percentage.........Delegates
Delaware....96,341
Senator Obama............53%...................9
Senator Clinton............42%...................6
Senator Biden................3%...................0
Senator Edwards............1%..................0
Missouri....823,754
Senator Obama............49%.................30
Senator Clinton.............48%.................30
Senator Edwards............2%...................0
Connecticut....350,595
Senator Clinton.............51%................25
Senator Obama.............47%................22
Senator Edwards.............1%.................0
Idaho....21,224
Senator Obama.............79%................15
Senator Clinton..............17%.................3
Senator Edwards.............1%.................0
(Senator Clinton barely excaped losing her delegates here, had she not obtained more than 15% of the vote)
Kansas....36,695
Senator Obama..............74%...............23
Senator Clinton...............26%................9
Massachusetts....1,244,133
Senator Clinton...............56%...............52
Senator Obama...............41%...............36
Senator Edwards..............2%.................0
North Dakota....18,856
Senator Obama...............61%.................8
Senator Clinton...............37%.................5
Senator Edwards..............2%.................0
Oklahoma....401,230
Senator Clinton..............55%................24
Senator Obama..............31%................14
Senator Edwards............10%.................0
Tennessee....614,096
Senator Clinton..............54%................34
Senator Obama..............41%................21
Senator Edwards.............4%..................0
EMUJeff