Opinion: Why wait for Democratic primaries? Award the delegates now

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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