Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Pennsylvania Election Day:


What is a win today? Obviously 50%+1= VICTORY! However, this is a ridiculous and incorrect line of thought. The delegate math is all that matters, period. One does not win a state in a proportional delegate system. Think of each state like a play in a football game. It would be silly to say that one team won a quarter. Have you ever heard a coach say after a lose "well, we did win 2 quarters, so it was really a tie!" Let us not forget that this works both ways for both Democratic candidates. Pennsylvania is just one of 50 states that is worth 187 delegates, which will probably be split about 99 for Hillary Machiavelli and 88 for Obama. An 11 point gain....It is nothing in the overall scheme of the election. Bragging about winning one state at this point is insulting. Clinton should not say she won Pennsylvania tonight, she should say she won X amount of delegates, which of course would be honest and without spin, and well, we know what Randy Rhodes said about her....

1 comment:

Bradda said...

Thanks for putting it into perspective as I was thinking of this earlier. She loves winning states that "matter". There's NO way she can win by enough today to catch the O man. I know it is sexist and I don't want to repeat it but maybe Ozzy's guitar player was right.