Delegates, Delegates, Delegates

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Friday February 19, 2016 · 1:40 PM PST

2016/02/19 · 13:40

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The question in everyone’s mind is “who will win Nevada tomorrow?”.

But that might not be the most relevant question. The question is “how many delegates will each candidate get?”

Unless something goes terribly awry (for either candidate), tomorrow both Clinton and Sanders will add to their delegate total.

There are 35 pledged delegates (non super-delegates) at stake.

In 2008 Hillary won the popular vote in Nevada, but because of the byzantine way delegates are awarded, Obama got more of them.

So, it is perfectly possible that the same might happen tomorrow. That’s another reason polls are less meaningful than usual. They might point to the winner of the popular vote, but not who gets more delegates.

Because the number of delegates is an odd number, someone will get at least 1 more delegate.

My guess is that the difference will be 1 to 3 delegates for Sanders.

Care to guess?

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