Primary math
Mar. 17th, 2008 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petardierSome are suggesting that the popular vote in the Democratic primary is more important than the delegate count. There's just one problem with that notion. There isn't really a complete popular vote to compare in a mixed primary/caucus system. The caucus states are going to have a lot few votes recorded by the very nature of the process. You have to be willing and able to spend multiple hours at a caucus if you want to be sure of having your vote count. If the caucus states had had primaries, their vote totals would have been much higher.
The overall effect of bringing up the popular vote is to over-emphasize the importance of primary states over caucus states (or under-emphasize the caucus states if you prefer).
It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. It's more like apples-to-grapes. Or maybe apples-and-grapes to apples-and-strawberries. Anyone out there got an analogy that works for this?
The overall effect of bringing up the popular vote is to over-emphasize the importance of primary states over caucus states (or under-emphasize the caucus states if you prefer).
It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. It's more like apples-to-grapes. Or maybe apples-and-grapes to apples-and-strawberries. Anyone out there got an analogy that works for this?
