Obama gets 60 out of 87 Georgia delegates

[RamboLiberal]

Barack Obama won more than the popular vote in Georgia's Feb. 5 Democratic presidential primary. He also won 60 of the 87 delegates at play that day.

The Democratic Party of Georgia on Friday released results showing how the state's delegates were awarded. Obama won 66 percent of the popular vote, to 31 percent for Hillary Clinton. Clinton on Friday was awarded 27 delegates.

delegates, based on the overall statewide vote as well as the vote in each of the state's 13 congressional districts.

Also, there are 15 unpledged delegates still to be awarded. Thirteen of those are so-called superdelegates, made up of party leaders and elected officials who can vote for either candidate at the party's national convention in August in Denver. There are also two additional unpledged delegates the state party will choose from across Georgia.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/02/22/gadelegates_0223.html

[NJSecularist]

1. Georgia and Minnesota are the reasons why he tied Hillary on Super Tuesday

despite losing large states like Mass, NY and CA

Also, you can't forget Illinois, but that's a given.

[Pirate Smile]

2. He picked up more delegates from Idaho then Hillary did from New Jersey.

I'll find the specifics. She really made a mistake ignoring the caucuses.

edit to add - it was Idaho, not Utah.

"Here is a simple way to understand the consequences of that choice. Take two states that held Super Tuesday contests on Feb. 5: big New Jersey, with 107 pledged delegates at stake, and tiny Idaho, with 18 delegates up for grabs. Clinton won New Jersey's primary and made headlines for doing so early on that night, while Obama won Idaho's caucuses long after many of those watching had gone to bed. But because of the rules of proportionality, Clinton netted just 11 more delegates than Obama from her New Jersey victory, while he gained 12 more than her by winning Idaho.

That pattern held through other states on Feb. 5 and Feb. 9, as Obama rolled up substantial margins and, as a result, harvested delegates in numbers that belied the relatively small size of some of the states. Eight states held caucuses during that period -- Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Washington -- and together awarded 305 pledged delegates. By the Obama team's calculations, the split out of those states is about 209 for him and 96 for Clinton -- an advantage of 113 delegates."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021403482_pf.html