Obama Picks Up New Ohio Delegate (thanks to absentee and provisional ballots in Hamilton County)

[housewolf]

Originally posted by Pirate Smile at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=108x129398

Obama Picks Up New Ohio Delegate

by gobacktotexas
Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 05:30:21 PM PDT
I'm on an Obama Ohio campaign mailing list with some relatively high ranking officials.

gobacktotexas's diary :: ::

I was just notified that thanks to absentee and provisional ballots, Barack Obama has picked up an additional delegate in Hamilton County(Cincinnati), OH. This means Hillary's net gain in Ohio was actually only seven delegates. Also on March 4th, Obama picked up 5 delegates in Texas. With Obama also netting 3 delegates in Vermont that day, and Hillary netting five in Rhode Island, this means that Hillary's BEST day so far of primary season 2008, her biggest delegate gain, was March 4th, with a net pick up of a whopping five delegates. Every other day Obama tied or beat her.

The email:

From: Jeffrey [e-mail]
Subject: Revised Pledged Delegate Count -- It's Moved Up to 171 Delegates
To:
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008, 7:28 PM

It's official. Happy to announce that late-counted provisional and absentee ballots have won one additional delegate for Barack in the Cincinnati area. That means Ohio was only a seven delegate loss and our national lead in pledged delegates has moved up to 171 delegates.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/17/20252/2491/370/497954

[DerekJ]

1. K & R

[Zachstar]

2. Awesome!! As every delegate means Obama is closer to getting the nomination!

[Major Hogwash]

3. I can't wait until the end of the month.

More news coming out in May.

[quakerboy]

4. So do you have an overall count

for Ohio? Every count I can find says 66-75, which is a 9 delegate difference, not 7.

[housewolf]

6. I don't have the exact counts right at hand

but I'll see if I can find them & I'll post them back here.

Good question, thanks for asking.

[quakerboy]

8. Thank you

These "Obama got one more" posts, because every time I track them back to total delegate count for the state, it hasn't changed from what I calculated on my own, in the handy dandy nerd sheet I made for myself. So either my sheet is just better than all the official "counts" from the get go, or these gains are Illusory. Between that and the various levels of conventions along the way, its enough to drive the more concrete thinkers a little batty.

[housewolf]

9. I can't find any "official" source for pledged delegate counts...

It may be that it's up to each state's party to maintain and report their total, or it may even be at the county or district level, which makes it really hard to know when things change. "Official" results are reported at the end of the primary, but whether these counts get updated on some website or another when things change (as happened in this case with Ohio and recently with Mississippi), it's hard to figure out when or if that happens.

These are a couple of fairly reliable sources for delegate counts, but it doesn't appear that either has updated their Ohio counts yet.

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com

[quakerboy]

11. Yup. Ive checked the official

state democratic websites for each state thats voted. Some of them have chosen. Many more have not picked their national delegates, or at least not all of their national delegates yet. At least the delegate selection plans tell you when they will be chosen. But for the impatient(ME!!!!!) its not easy to wait.

[crispini]

5. .

kick

[thevoiceofreason]

7. That's cool. He accreted 4 in Cali and 1 in Miss. too!

[Lucky 13]

10. That's one closer to the goal! Drip drip drip!

KICK!!