Someone help me understand how Obama wins AL by 24% but gets 9 less delegates?!?!?

[usregimechange]

Democrats
52 pledged delegates, 8 unpledged
Candidate Vote % Delegates
Barack Obama 302,684 55.8% 10
Hillary Clinton 226,454 41.7 19
John Edwards 7,933 1.5 0
Uncommitted 2,672 0.5 0
Joseph R. Biden Jr. 1,193 0.2 0
Bill Richardson 1,046 0.2 0
Christopher J. Dodd 529 0.1 0
99% reporting | Updated 5:23 PM ET

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/AL.html

[Egnever]

1. They havent all been split yet.

these guys are still counting.

[Muttocracy]

2. kind of like the electoral college, it's not just popular vote

based on the paragraph further down the page you linked, it looks like some calculation based on congressional districts as well as state-wide popular vote. If you look at the map by margin of victory, where Obama won he won by a lot, but it's kind of like winning NY by a landslide in the general election - doesn't get you any more electoral college votes than if you got 50.01%

Or that's my guess anyway.

Edit to add - previous reply that came in while I was typing looks right too - only 29 of 52 figured out so far?

[tabasco]

3. Winning districts and delegates. Not entirely proportional to the popular vote.

Somebody was complaining that Hillary won the popular vote in NV by 6% and got less delegates there.

This more than evens it out.

[Dr.Phool]

4. They studied math in Florida.

[grantcart]

5. They have 33 more delegates to assign

[dugggy]

6. The delegates could be based on how many precincts won

by each candidate. Each state has it own unique way how delegates
are alloted. It is not always based on popular vote.

[RockyTorres]

7. Who ever carries the most populated areas wins the most delegates

[ShadowLiberal]

8. Different totals here, but still don't seem fair with Obama's 15% lead

Clinton: 23
Obama: 26
Left to distribute: 4

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/">http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/

[Zynx]

9. Nevada wasn't fair either. This system is nothing short of bullcrap.

[leftofthedial]

10. it's the superdelegate delegate counters

it's much too complicated for ordinary people to understand. don't worry. just go to sleep.