At NRO’s Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty is confused that Obama could possibly end up with more delegates than Clinton, despite coming in second place, due to the state’s “arcane weighting system“:
What, the metric system?
No, this one:
On Jan. 19, party caucuses meet in each precinct to choose delegates to county conventions. The delegates selected are not bound to any candidate. At the county conventions on Feb. 23, delegates to the state convention are chosen. They are not bound to any candidate. The state convention is April 18-20, during which delegates choose 25 of the 33 delegates to the national convention. Sixteen of the 25 delegates are allocated proportionally to presidential candidates based on the support for the candidates in each of the state’s three Congressional districts. Nine delegates are allocated to candidates based on the support among all of the delegates attending the convention. The remaining eight unpledged delegates are chosen from party leaders.
Isn’t Geraghty being paid?
Update: AP and NBC have now changed their delegate counts to 13 for Obama and 12 for Clinton. (h/t Memeorandum.)
Comment by McGehee on 1/19 @ 6:51 pm #
It really would be less unsettling to the digestion if the two political parties selected their nominees by having their supporters send in cereal box tops.
Comment by McGehee on 1/19 @ 6:52 pm #
…unless they made a rule that you had to eat all of the cereal containe3d in the boxes…
Comment by happyfeet on 1/19 @ 6:56 pm #
Good catch. Geraghty should be embarrassed. Also, I would eat lots and lots of Lucky Charms for Fred. That’s kind of a cool idea really.
Comment by B Moe on 1/19 @ 7:01 pm #
Would you be able to eat granola for a Republican? That is one of the hold-overs from my hippie days, I still like granola.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/19 @ 7:06 pm #
Is that different from muesli? I like muesli. Kashi is kind of like muesli plus you get interracial lesbians. Yay!
Comment by Karl on 1/19 @ 7:16 pm #
Romney eats granola every morning.
Crunchy-con.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/19 @ 7:23 pm #
Yeesh. Some days you can’t walk across the room around here without tripping over the metaphors.