As anyone who reads this site knows, especially anyone who chooses to delve into the diaries, Senator Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday by 9.14% over Senator Barack Obama. With over 200,000 more votes than her opponent, the non-psychotically-obsessed observers amongst us might think that Senator Clinton had scored a major victory that changes the face of the race.
The rest of us know that picking up a net of 10 delegates when you're down over 150 with only 408 more pledged delegates left to win in a state favorable isn't enough to do that, nor enough to get the 300+ undecided superdelegates to support you en masse.
After the jump, a (hopefully helpful) primer on how delegate math is done, and the delegate math for the next two contests on the schedule, the Indiana Primary on May 6th and the Guam caucus on May 3rd.
edit: This is a repost, given that ~30 people read the original and 20 of them rec'd it. Just going for a wider audience @ not 4am on a Friday. I acknowledge for the faux pas.
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