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Originally Posted by LeslieAGD
Your answer doesn't make sense to me...because in Nevada, Hilary got 51% of the popular vote and Obama only got 45%. Hilary only got 12 delegates, but Obama got 13. Why exactly is that?
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The Democratic format can get really complicated, it's not just the raw # of votes over the whole state, it actually depends on WHERE in the state the votes come from and how many delegates different districts are worth.
This page has one of the clearer breakdowns:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...wuspols627.xml
• To win the race, a candidate must secure the support of more than half their party's delegates to their nominating convention in the summer - 2,025 out of 4,049 Democrat delegates; or 1,191 out of 2,380 Republican delegates.
• The more votes a candidate receives in each state the more delegates they win. Larger states send more delegates to the convention.
• In many Republican contests, the winner of each state takes all the delegates. But each leading candidate seems able to win some states.
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On the Democrat side, delegates are awarded according to districts won - making it harder for one candidate to acquire a dominating lead.
Candidates can score highly by winning the key cities.
• Democrats also have a system of so-called
Super Delegates - leading party figures - who can decide for themselves who to support. In this group, Hillary Clinton is ahead of Barack Obama.
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