The CNBC, CBS, CNN projected winner charts last night did not make it graphically at all and I know a lot of people will go through the rest of their lives (not here of course) not understanding this.

Percentages that you see represent very different delegate apportionment in Texas and if you go state by state in all 4 states–Hillary is going to come out with a gain of 8-10 delegates. The headline in my paper was two inches large in type I haven’t seen since 911.

I am in a place which is in the top ten media markets in the country. I just reread every article on the election. They list the percentages of the states and the total delegates in each state available.

If you showed that front section and all its articles to anyone who doesn’t know a little about delegates, they would conclude that delegates were assigned directly by the percentages of voters. No where do they list the actual delegate yield for Clinton or Obama per state.

I find this ludicrous, and really unfortunate because many people don’t understand that while Clinton did do better than expected, she is so significantly behind in delegates it is near mathematically impossible for her to gain enough pledged delegates from the remianing 12 states.

No one could tell from reading any article or list that Hillary comes away with 8-10 Max delegates after what Obama called “the sound and fury.” He didn’t say it signified nothing, and of course it didn’t. But it signified a very small delegate gain by Hillary and I was stressing that to think in terms of states won makes that hard if not impossible to realize.

For the Dems to right off these delegations will have ramifications come November. A “redo” now has all of the feel of a sudden death overtime being held in three ring circus. This problem is, as you so aptly put, a bad penny…

The only logical way to handle this is to seat the delegations. The creditials committee could do this before the convention. While maybe not ideal this solution at least does not smack of disenfranchising real voters who did come out and vote.

I honestly think the only fair thing to do in Florida is to count the 1.5 million votes that were already cast in an election that was held on even ground for both candidates.

In fact Mike Gavel only campaigned there. The election was not held on even ground for both candidates because they actually agreed there was no valid election there.

People have a sense of “playing by the rules” in Sports…in politics, not so much.