How did Hillary get a lower %, but more delegates than Edwards?

[Egalitariat]

These Caucuses are a mystery to me.

[LynneSin]

1. How did Bush lose the popularity vote but manage to steal the election

I think Iowa is broken down into 'mini-caucus' regions and Hillary just happen to win more delegates even though the number of people in those 'mini-caucus' are less than those in Edwards.

[truebrit71]

2. She didn't win more delegates...?? Where are you seeing that she did...??

Obama got 940 Edwards got 744 and HRC got 737....at least that's what MSNBC is saying...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21229206

[IndianaJones]

4. thats not the delegate count I believe. nt.

[FogerRox]

6. Its not a precinct tally, only 1781 precincts in iowa

[papau]

5. MSNBC is "projected delegates" to chose convention delegates - but that

final number is on CNN as 16/15/14 for O/H/E

[Gman]

7. There were only 57 delegate votes up for grabs

[papau]

3. actual vote is not known - only 16/15/14 delegate win O/H/E - the percentage is a poll taken at the

entrance to the vote - and it appears to have been a little off.

The caucus vote is never released.

[displacedtexan]

8. Commited superdelegates count.

I just blogged (explanatory links included) about this.

As of today (including Iowa), Clinton has 52% of commited Dem delegates.
Obama has 20%, and Edwards has 14%.

Michigan's 156 delegates will most likely be seated at the convention, and
Clinton is the only viable candidate on their ballot. (And they have a
popular female governor).

This is far from over.

[truebrit71]

9. I thought that MI and FL delegates were banned from the convention?

No?

[Ilsa]

11. thank you! I'm always forgetting from one election to another. nt

[Ilsa]

10. She may have done better with rural Iowa than Edwards. One of the

political people on MSNBC said that the Iowa delegates are skewed slightly in favor of rural population versus urban, so the percentages don't tell the whole story. He said "watch the delegate count," but I couldn't find one any where.

[SheilaT]

12. My guess is that those numbers represent

the delegates from the precinct caucuses -- what happened last night -- who go on to the next level in Iowa where the actual convention delegates are selected. This is NOT a winner-take-all such as occurs with the electoral college. Iowa's delegates to the national convention will be in approximately the percentages that came out of last night's caucuses.

It is distantly possible that a three-way race will continue through Super Tuesday (February 5, 2008) and that no one of the three will have a clear majority at the time of the convention. Unlikely, but distantly possible.