None of the major news networks can agree on the delegate count for the Democratic party. However, MSNBC appears to have the most comprehensive details. In terms of pledged delegates, Obama is up 838 to 834. That includes the results from Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, which means that Clinton actually did squeak out a victory of for pledged delegates on Tuesday, because Obama was up by 15 delegates prior to February 5th (mostly from his win in South Carolina). The reason why a number of networks show Obama down by close to 100 delegates is because of Superdelegates. Clinton has about 100 more than Obama. However, these delegates can switch their support if they so choose and probably will to whomever is the eventual nominee, unless it actually goes to a brokered convention. Again, as I mentioned in my last post, the Democratic party should strongly consider a winner-take-all system, at least in certain states. This partly for the reasons I mentioned previously, but also because the delegate system is, quite simply, meshugah.
At any rate, the primary race goes on. Louisiana (67 delegates), Nebraska (31) and the big prize Washington (97) are all going to be decided this Saturday. Maine is the following day (34), and District of Columbia (37), Maryland (99) and Virginia (103) are all happening on the 12th, this coming Tuesday. I'll be down in Maryland campaigning for Barack this weekend, so I may blog from there.
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