Crazy Delegate math, in many districts, you can win with 62% of the vote and tie in delegates

[Herman Munster]

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/2/2/212343/0037

Districts with 3 delegates. Delegates will split 2-1 if a candidate wins 50-83.3% of the vote. A candidate needs greater than 83.3% of the vote to win all three delegates.

Districts with 4 delegates. Delegates will split 3-1 only if a candidate gets between 62.5% and 85% of the vote. Less than 62.5% will result in a 2-2 split. More than 85% will result in a 4-0 split.

Districts with 5 delegates. Delegates will split 3-2 if a candidate wins between 50 and 70% of the vote. Delegates will split 4-1 if a candidate wins between 70 and 85 of the vote. Delegates will go 5-0 if a candidate wins greater than 85% of the vote.

Districts with 6 delegates. District will split 4-2 if a candidate wins between 58.3% and 75% of the vote; it will split 3-3 if it is less than 58.3%; it will split 5-1 if a candidate wins between 75% and 85% and 6-0 if it is greater than 85%.

[joshcryer]

1. The delegate system is flawed and unethical.

So too is the electoral system for that matter.

[FrenchieCat]

4. You would prefer to do like the Republicans......

not in a way that is more representative?

Strange.

[Herman Munster]

6. You win the state you get the delegates

It's simple and would wrap this process up a lot quicker. At this point, the republicans will have a candidate by 2/5 and we'll be lost in the wilderness for months, possibly all the way to the convention in August. We are just finding every way to lose an election handed to us on a silver platter.

[JustinL]

2. sounds fine to me

Requiring 62.5% of the votes to win 75% of the delegates is perfectly reasonable. Anything less than 62.5% is closer to 50% than to 75%.

[sunonmars]

3. its something, that will have to change

crazy.

We'll have a big problem here if Hillary or Obama takes popular vote wins in every state and the other gets more delegates.

Say for instance if Hillary wins the popular vote in 20 states on Tuesday but ends up with less delegates, there is going to be a almighty scream of epic porportions.

[robbedvoter]

5. I am for direct elections myself. Primaries, GE - just vote for the candidate

Skip the middle man - make the candidate get the fact that it's the voter that hires/fires them. In other words - democracy.