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ProgressiveEconomist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-08-08 02:34 AM
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Did HRC hope quietly to net ***121*** tainted delegates from Florida and Michigan?
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Edited on Sat Mar-08-08 02:40 AM by ProgressiveEconomist

The most definitive source of Democratic Primary delegate counts, TheGreenpapers, lists a net of 79 tainted "soft" delegates theoretically allocatable to Hillary in Michigan, and a net of 42 tainted "soft" delegates for Hillary in Florida.

TheGreenpapers "soft" counts include superdelegate estimates, so that's how Obama could get 1 "soft" delegate in Michigan, and why the totals exceed primary pledged counts of 128 for Michigan and 185 for Florida you may have seen in the media.

I am truly amazed to find these figures so large, and NO discernible discussion of them in the media.

What do you think?

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Definitions from http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Definitions.html:

The "hard count" consists of a count of the National Convention delegates as they are formally allocated ... No delegates are placed in the "hard count" column unless and until they have been so allocated. ...

The "soft count", meanwhile, is an estimation- based on the best possible information available to "The Green Papers" at the time- as to which presidential contenders delegates (even those who are nominally "Unpledged") will support on the floor of the Convention. ...

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