Decoding the Delegates
Totally confused by the delegate count? Just realized that winning the popular vote isn't the same thing as winning the most delegates in a state? Never fear, TIME magazine is here, with a terrific piece on just this topic.
Here's a snippet:
It takes 2,025 convention delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, and about 1,700 will be awarded in the 22 states that hold contests on Tuesday. But come Wednesday morning, there will be many ways of looking at the results. Will the real winner be the candidate who wins the most delegates? The most votes? The most states? The most closely contested battlegrounds?
Totally confused by the delegate count? Just realized that winning the popular vote isn't the same thing as winning the most delegates in a state? Never fear, TIME magazine is here, with a terrific piece on just this topic.
Here's a snippet:
It takes 2,025 convention delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, and about 1,700 will be awarded in the 22 states that hold contests on Tuesday. But come Wednesday morning, there will be many ways of looking at the results. Will the real winner be the candidate who wins the most delegates? The most votes? The most states? The most closely contested battlegrounds?