Pledged Delegate Count from California so far - Clinton 42, Obama 23

[jsamuel]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#CA

This only includes pledged delegates. Clinton has also gotten around 22 superdelegates from California.

[thevoiceofreason]

1. It's not linear

[Kittycat]

2. Look at you - being the voice of reason.

You know we don't allow that in GDP :rofl:

[debatepro]

3. This is wrong

it doesn't work like that.

Less than half of the delegates are allocated proportionally by the total state vote.... a big chunk of the rest of the votes are allocated on a congressional district level. So if there are 4 delegates awarded for a district one of the candidates would have to get 75% to get the 3-1 advantage. So it is really hard to get a big advantage... Now if you look at all the states... there are more that Obama won by large margines meaning he was more likely to get 3-1, 4-2, etc splits at the district level. Its the same reason despite "losing" by 5% in Nevada he got equal or more delegates than clinton...

Obama's delegate counts account for this... CNN hasn't done this work yet.

[godai]

4. MSNBC California: 202/163 Clinton/Obama

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22419475