After a bitter battle, Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama split Nevada, with Clinton winning the popular vote by a small margin, and Obama winning the deligate count, again, by a small margin.
How?
Here's the totals:
Hillary Clinton 5,355 51% 12
Barack Obama 4,773 45% 13
John Edwards 396 4% 0
Uncommitted 31 0%
Dennis Kucinich 5 0% 0
Bill Richardson 0 0% 0
Note that Obama won the deligate battle. According to MSNBC: But hold on, folks. The Nevada Democratic Party just issued this clarification (emphasis is ours): "No national convention delegates were awarded. That said, if the delegate preferences remain unchanged between now and April 2008, the calculations of national convention delegates being circulated by the Associated Press are correct. We look forward to our county and state conventions where we will choose the delegates for the nominee that Nevadans support."
What does this mean? It looks like the Obama camp's math (as well as the AP's and NBC's) is correct.
Thus, regardless of the Clinton camp's claim , Obama has won the deligate count.
Something else is clear: John Edwards should drop out of the race.
Zennie,
ReplyDeleteI must respectfully disagree with your assertion that Presidential hopeful John Edwards needs to drop out.
He serves as a great equalizer to both of the frontrunners campaigns, providing a meaningful, yet vastly important message that has permeated in resounding fashion throughout the country.
No primary or caucus needs to indicate that for compenent and knowledgable individuals to recognize that. He'll stay in through February 5th and swipe away limited votes from both Obama and Clinton.
Hey Dave,
ReplyDeleteJust one problem. He takes votes away from Barack, who's most like him in Edwards' populist message. If John's only getting 4 percent of the votes, and not best than 10, why not drop out?
He's being a spoiler for Obama.