Winner-Take-All Standings
Posted at 9:32 am on Wednesday, March 5, 2008, in Uncategorized, and tagged 2008.
After last night, it is a virtual tie. But what if the democratic nomination were more like the electoral college, a winner-take-all system, similar to the GOP? And what if there were no superdelegates?
The following would be the standing pledged delegate count in the case it were winner-take-all, using the New York Times’ results map, and disregarding the Michigan and Florida results…
Barack Obama
Iowa — 45
South Carolina — 45
Alabama — 52
Alaska — 13
Colorado — 55
Connecticut — 48
Delaware — 15
Georgia — 87
Idaho — 18
Illinois — 153
Kansas — 32
Minnesota — 72
Missouri — 72
North Dakota — 13
Utah — 23
Louisiana — 57
Washington — 78
Nebraska — 24
Maine — 24
District of Columbia — 15
Maryland — 70
Virginia — 83
Hawaii — 20
Wisconsin — 74
Vermont — 15
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Total — 1203
Hillary Clinton
New Hampshire — 22
Nevada — 25
Arizona — 56
Arkansas — 35
California — 370
Massachusetts — 93
New Jersey — 107
New Mexico — 26
Oklahoma — 38
Tennessee — 68
New York — 232
Ohio — 141
Rhode Island — 21
Texas — 193
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Total — 1427
Clearly, proportionate delegation is giving the Obama campaign their current lead.
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