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Who really won Super-Tuesday ? The Super-Delegates.

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Following yesterday’s post on the difference between super-delegates and pledged delegates and the fact that the number of delegates per State is not linear (proportional) from one state to another, I am analyzing the results of Super-Tuesday and discover some strange numbers. I will post as soon as the results of yesterday primaries are officials.

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All delegates are equal, but some are more equal than others

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Read also: how much does a delegate cost ? The candidates’ campaigns’ budgets.

How many delegates per state ? 

I raised the question here earlier on how the number of delegates was calculated for each state. And I didn’t really find an answer, besides the fact that the method was obscure and complicated - and not really democratic. And I am not the only one to say that … Continue reading ‘All delegates are equal, but some are more equal than others’

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The Islamic schism: Sunnis and Shiites

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My understanding of the Shi’a and Sunni schism inside the Islamic religion has always been approximative, a gathering of the information I collected watching and reading the news.

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250,000 free online maps at the UT Library

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The University of Texas at Austin just made public and easily available 250,000 maps of the world. Politics, religions, people, countries, continents, cities, … It’s fantastic to find in one place everything you need when investigating a subject in geography or geopolitics !

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