Reply #56: Here. This is from THE NATION. They endorsed OBAMA, FWIW. [View All]

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The Obama campaign, stung by a loss in a state they had really hoped to win, is now trying to spin a line that it won more delegates to this summer's Democratic Narional Convention. There is no reason to deny them their claim that, under the arcane weighting rules for delegate selection, the Illinois senator's strong showing in more conservative rural areas could end up giving him more delegates come summer. But nor is there any guarantee that the process will play out as they predict.

The truth is that no one knows which campaign will get the most national convention delegates, as Saturday's precinct caucuses were only the beginning of a process that will continue through county caucuses in February and a state convention in April. It is only at that state convention in April when the national convention delegation will be selected, at a point when there will be an inclination to get on board with the candidate who looks like the winner. (In 2004, for instance, John Kerry won 63 percent of the vote on caucus night in February, and the media estimated that he had won 19 national convention delegates Kerry versus 5 for Howard Dean. At the Nevada state convention in April, only Kerry delegates were selected for the national convention, where the senator from Massachusetts got all the state's delegate votes.)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080120/cm_thenation/45272844



But hey, whatever. Keep flapping your gums!! Nice spin!!