Tag Archive for 'delegates'

There will be blood …. between Barack and Hillary !

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The subject has been covered over and over (and over and over) again, so I won’t add to it.

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1,312 delegates to go !

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Yesterday, during the “Potomac Tuesday“, we saw Barack Obama pass Hillary Clinton again in the race to the nomination at the Democratic convention.

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A $572M absurdity: the presidential campaigns fundraising

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Half a billion in advertising

The subject of the candidates’ campaigns finance and budgets have been discussed a lot recently. I decided to dig a little deeper, checking the previous elections as well as the ratios to their success (or failures …). Here is the spreadsheet I created.

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Doing my math on the delegates’ count: WTF ??!!

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Notes: all figures are from February 7th, 10am

As said yesterday, I started doing some maths on the ratios, averages, representations of each Democratic candidate during the super-tuesday. My aim was to illustrate what I claimed two days ago: all votes are not equal.

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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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