Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Primary results
I'm going to post many details about this later tonight, but I need to say right now that I'm amazed and appalled but it's not possible to get factual results of the primaries. Many reasons. Partly it's that each state has its own often quirky way of tallying caucus and/or primary results. Partly it's that there are at least two zillion ways that whatever the percentage results are get translated into numbers of convention delegates. Partly it's that every news outlet has a story they want to tell as to who is or is not leading on either side. Partly it's that each news outlet "estimates" the delegate count and doesn't show that the numbers are estimates except in very tiny gray print. Reliable cold hard facts are nowhere to be found. It's nuts. There are no posted results that are simply straightforward numbers. Romney either has 27 or 36 or 42 or 47 or 52 delegates. Billary either has 24 or 25 or 190. Details anon, as I say, but no wonder there's confusion and craziness among the electorate. It's absolutely astonishing we ever elect anyone with anything even vaguely resembling the will of the people (remember them us?).
Labels: 2008 election, reflections, silliness
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