Why wait for Democratic primaries? Award the delegates now
This one is for Ticket readers who are really, really into this Democratic delegate business. After all, why be a spectator when you can actually plan the unfolding history for one of the most dramatic presidential races in recent memory?
A whole bunch of our supremely smart Web tech folks have invented an online Democratic delegate designator for you to play with. You can go here and follow the instructions with check boxes and sliders and award your own party delegates for all the remaining primaries and caucuses, one by one. See how the totals mount for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton state by state.
Then change the numbers for one state and see how it affects the ongoing scenario, tally and race.
You can even throw in how you think the Florida and Michigan situations will finally be resolved and who gets those crucial combined 366 delegates. Also, which side you predict the rest of the superdelegates will line up on.
And it won't cost you one donor dollar.
Although if you want to shower the bloggers with some, that's not allowed.
-- Andrew Malcolm
Hillary Clinton... We will fight you in the streets... we will fight you in the hills ... we will fight you everywhere !
-Democratic Grass Roots - Organizing against Clinton's - Campaign against America.
We will FIGHT YOU Everywhere !
EVERYWHERE !
Posted by: PulSamsara | March 12, 2008 at 01:29 PM
The following things are clear from using the LA Times "Delegate Math" tool:
Hillary cannot gain the pledged delegate lead after the remaining scheduled primaries unless she wins all of them by at least 15%.
Hillary can only gain the pledged delegate lead if Michigan and Florida vote over. No wonder she and her crew are working overtime to make those re-votes happen. They are her only chance.
But how are they to happen? $30 Million for complete new primaries. Won't happen -- not enough money. $12 million for two vote-by-mail elections like Oregon uses. Can't happen. Not enough time.
It took Oregon years to get the infrastructure in place ...the computerized system to allow a trained election worker to physically compare the voter signature on an outer ballot with the voter's signature on their original voter registration. Only Oregon could get ready for a fair election like that in time for June. And we are already having one -- so our election officials cannot participate.
Too bad, Hillary. Either you lose. Or the super delegates defy the pledged delegate lead Obama will still have in June. Then Dems will lose across the country.
Pick your poison, Madame President. Either way McCain wins.
Posted by: Jim Hale | March 12, 2008 at 03:17 PM