please explain super tueday
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- TheBlueOne0
734 is on target, however who votes in the primaries/caucuses varies from state to state. Some states allow independents to vote (generally when you register to vote you pick a party - Democratic, Republican, Green, etc or independent - i.e no party affiliation).
So all the party members vote in these primaries for who they want to be the nominee of their party in the General Election. On the Democrats side there are delegates chosen based on proportional voting by voting district in each state which you have to win by a certain margin (don't quote me but I think it's 15%) - and this is why even if one candidate "wins" the state the other opponent can walk out with an equal or greater delegate count even if they didn't win the total vote count.
E.G. Let's say there is a voting district that has 4 delegates. Clinton wins 52% of them and Obama gets 48%, then each get 2 delegates - they split it. No, the next voting district might have 5 delegates, and let's say Obama wins 68% and Hillary 32%, thus beating the 15% margin (not sure if it does, not doing the math, just giving you an example). Then Obama gets 3 delegates and Clinton 2. Wash and repeat for the entire State which has tens or hundred voting district and then repeat again for each State. And in close primaries like this one you get a pretty even delegate count - like what happened yesterday, and it's the delegates that count for intra-party nomination.
Not sure if that cleared things up at all...
- valiant attempt anyway! cheerskelpie
- Hey, just getting my morning coffee here...TheBlueOne
- there are winner-take-all states too - correct?bulletfactory