Super Delegates

I'm amazed at how much of the media coverage of the Democratic New Hampshire Primary focuses on Hillary Clinton's "victory".

As Darren Abrecht of MacClatchy Interactive points out, "Clinton's popular-vote margin over Obama was razor-thin - fewer than 8,000 votes, or 3%, with 96% of precincts reporting. As a result, each will come away from New Hampshire with 9 delegates."
Source: http://www.kansascity.com/445/v-print/story/437288.html [1]

It seems to me the more important story is not who "wins" a given primary but instead what is the overall delegate score. The last I counted, counting super-delegates, Clinton leads with 183 to Obama's 78 delegates. While this is a long way from the 2,025 delegates each candidate would need to sew up the nomination, watching the delegate count is what we should be concentrating on, not whether Hillary's "emotional moment" was sincere or not.


By T.G.Vincent 2008-01-10 02:02

URL: http://agonist.org/t_g_vincent/20080109/super_delegates