The results of the Democrats Abroad primary are in tonight and Obama has beaten Clinton to extend his winning streak to 11 primaries. I thought that I understood when I voted on line last week how the DA process worked but I just read their official press release and now I'm puzzled about the arithmetic. There are a total of 22 delegates that DA will send to the national convention in Denver this August. Obama picked up 2.5 and Clinton received 2. Another 2.5 delegates will be determined at the DA's own global convention in April. Plus they have 4 super delegates. That adds up to 11 and not 22. Here's the actual text from the press release that's supposed to make this clear, "Under the Democrats Abroad Delegate Selection Plan, the results of the worldwide primary are to be applied to the Regional Caucuses once the allocation of delegates to each Caucus is made. Rounding to determine the allocation among the Regions results in 2 delegates to be elected by each of the Americas and Asia-Pacific Regional Caucuses,
and 5 delegates to be elected by the Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Caucus,
resulting in one delegate each for Obama and Clinton in the Americas and in Asia-
Pacific, and three delegates for Obama and 2 for Clinton in EMEA". To make this even curiouser the 22 delegates that are going to the national convention in Denver will actually have half a vote. I can't help but think of the line attributed to Will Rogers: "I don't belong to any organized political party, I'm a Democrat".
Friday, February 22, 2008
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