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Posted at 9:13am on Mar. 27, 2008 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

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.

Moe Lane

(H/T: Protein Wisdom)

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