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A New Choose-your-own-Primary-result from Jay Cost.
Although I personally would have included a combat system, maybe some magic rules...
By Moe Lane Posted in 2008 | RPGs as a metaphor for the primary | The Best Democratic Primary EVER — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Sorry. Geek joke.
Anyway, he's set it up so that you can crunch the numbers of the remaining primary races to see what the eventual vote totals will be in the Democratic primary. It looks pretty good, but to be honest: while it's a lot of work that Jay did here and I'm glad that he's given me a new toy to play with, it's still just a toy. The race has passed from being decided by the voters - Senator Obama's inability to close the sale by nailing down enough pledged delegates to win the nomination has ensured that - and gone to being eventually decided by almost 800 people, most of which aren't known all that well outside of their circles, and not a few of whom aren't really known at all. And enthusiasms of either Democratic faction aside, their task is not going to be "endorse the People's Will by Anointing their True Candidate." It's going to be "cut away as little living flesh as possible while debriding the wound."
Yeah, good luck with that, guys. You're going to need it.
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Logic is why Neil. n/t
by simpson316
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is that if the MI and FL votes are counted, then Hillary will have a higher popular vote total and THAT is what the Clintons are counting on to make their argument.
Hillary ends with more popular votes if FL and MI are counted in the totals and that allows here to scream that she won the popular vote so the Superdelegates are free to vote as they like.
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by TheDoctor
Those votes from MI & FL won't be counted. Both states have effectively stated that they won't run new contests. The only way for those states to be represented is if the DNC figures out some way to place the MI & FL delegates at the convention.
The real problem here is that for the Democrats to keep up with McCain they need to end this contest before the convention. If the bickering between Obama and Clinton doesn't stop, the election that was the Democrat's to lose, will be the election they lost.
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They always say we need to use the national popular vote for the Presidential election. Why don't they do the same in their next primary season? :-)
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