Yesterday, during the “Potomac Tuesday“, we saw Barack Obama pass Hillary Clinton again in the race to the nomination at the Democratic convention.
Continue reading ‘1,312 delegates to go !’
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.
Continue reading ‘A $572M absurdity: the presidential campaigns fundraising’
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.
Continue reading ‘Doing my math on the delegates’ count: WTF ??!!’
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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