Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: TomGuy

Obama will win Tuesday’s primaries but the delegate gap wont close much. Texas, Ohio and PA are the big ones. If she wins them with 5-10% margins, she will go to the convention with the most delegates and popular vote. A lot of Obama’s delegates come from Caucus Red States.


29 posted on 02/10/2008 8:06:05 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]


To: Old Retired Army Guy
Obama will win Tuesday's primaries but the delegate gap wont close much. Texas, Ohio and PA are the big ones. If she wins them with 5-10% margins, she will go to the convention with the most delegates and popular vote. A lot of Obama's delegates come from Caucus Red States.

You need to spend some time with a calculator, my Friend.

If Hillary wins Texas, Ohio and PA by 5-10% she will gain less than a hundred delegates because of the proportional nature of delegate selection in those states.

Obama is blowing her out in many other states, and still has some big blowouts to go. Maryland and DC on Tuesday, Mississippi, Wisconsin, probably Oregon, and some smaller western states as well. He leads by eighty delegates selected by caucus goers or voters. _That_ is the number that matters, because the superdelegates will be swayed by their constituents and that figure. I project an Obama two hundred to three hundred non-super delegate lead going to the convention. There is just no way she will win more than three quarters of the remaining super delegates. Her main supporters are already committed to her. The rest are waiting to see which way the wind blows. They will look at two factors--the winner of the non-super delegate delegate count and the polls against McCain.

Obama wins on both counts.

The fact that he is raising more money than he can spend on the remaining races dosen't hurt either.

She cannot win this race--numbers don't lie.
47 posted on 02/10/2008 8:27:32 AM PST by cgbg (That heat you feel is not global warming. It is the wicked witch melting melting.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

To: Old Retired Army Guy

PA are the big ones... GET out of here. It’s so late and Rendell has already picked it, that’s laughable.


145 posted on 02/10/2008 10:03:38 AM PST by Safetgiver (By the way, that means defecating on the local convenience store.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson