Best Analogy Yet: Delegate Math is like a Grade Point Average

[styersc]

Obama has the best GPA and Hillary has a slightly lower GPA.

Problem is that Hillary's GPA is derived from taking Honors and Advanced Placement classes- bigger, Democrat rich states won with Primaries, while Obama has a better average from taking "crip" classes (small states won in caucuses with a tiny umber of voters).

If I were the Admissions Officer- or Super Delegate- I'd have to give the Scholarship to Hillary.

[blm]

1. She already lies like the pro she is - she doesn't need learnin'. Bush-Clinton-BushInc has

been operating for decades.

[Exilednight]

2. Aren't primaries designed to reward those who get the most delegates via support of the people? n/t

[jbm]

3. I agree...that's the perfect analogy!..n/t

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[jgraz]

4. I totally agree. Let's give Hillary a scholarship

She can go off and study how to not be an appalling human being.

[cottonseed]

5. If you gave the scholarship to Hillary

all down ticket "students" may be in for a big surprise come reelection time.

[LiberalAndProud]

6. If you don't quit with the "red states don't matter"

bs, I'm very likely to NOT vote for your candidate in November. ENOUGH!!! We are stuck in Republican hell because our party has ignored us for far too long.

[styersc]

8. I'm from the reddest of Red States.

That, however, doesn't mean I want to vote for the least qualified yet most appealing candidate.

[LiberalAndProud]

21. So your vote doesn't count too.

You've made your decision for valid and defensible reasons. My state's electoral votes will be McCain's whether I vote or not, so it's reasonable to conclude that if a candidate has built a case for nomination based on "doesn't count", it'll be fine with that candidate if I withhold my vote. She's right, my vote doesn't count. And if we continue with the 15-state strategy, it won't count 40 years from now either.

[XemaSab]

7. Wrong, wrong, wrong

Hillary is like a student who takes one or two classes a semester; Obama's rocking 16 units plus intramural sports. :D

[styersc]

9. 16 credit hours while Hillary holds down a real job.

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. he's winning because he's getting A+ in the small states

and getting Bs in the large states, whereas Hillary is getting B+ in the large states and F's in the small states.

[JackORoses]

11. That is a dumbass analogy.

Superdelegates know what Pledged Delegates represent.

They also know that most of Hillary's 'honors' classes are already Dem Strongholds.
They give her no extra credit.

However, Obama's overperformance in places where Dems have never had a chance before tells the SDs that his coattails will be quite long.

[Gore1FL]

12. It;s probably more like this

Hilary got good grades in some important classes, but skipped going to ones she deemed unimportant.

Obama rec'd ever so slightly lower grades in the ones she attended, but got A's in all the others.

He gives the Valedictorian speech, and she has to repeat it later.

[Gore1FL]

13. Of course a less snarky analogy is:

there are only so many classes until graduation. She doesn't have enough time left to surpass Obama's GPA, even with straight A's.

[John Q. Citizen]

14. I know Hill had to take her Bar exam twice to pass it. She kept that secret too!

But as far as the delegate math goes;

Obama is winning and Hillary is losing.

You can try to make a silk purse oout of a sow's ear if you want to.

[RunningFromCongress]

15. HA! That's the dumbest thing I've heard all day.

[skipos]

16. I thought she had 35 years of experience and was ready on day one?

Why is she getting beaten by a someone as "inexperienced" as Obama? She has trailed in the pledged delegates since Iowa, what does that say about her abilities to run an effective campaign?

[styersc]

19. I guess Obamas courting homophobes and avoiding any

real issues while spouting others great lines hasd taken hold.

The other day I heard a pundit who said since Obama has been in the Senate, he has never cast a vote different from Hillary. I don't know this to be true, do you?

[baldguy]

17. All the primaries are required cources.

Hillary got her grade by ignoring the assignments during the year, then cramming for the midterms & finals.

[styersc]

18. Would have been a better response if you were able to

spell the word "courses".

I guess experience and maturity does count for something.

[Mass]

23. Do they?

:sarcasm:

[high density]

20. I have a better one

Obama wins the boxcar stamp battery speaker states.
Clinton wins the knob cardboard canon pavement states.

What does that mean? I have no clue. But then again I also have no clue what the OP means, either.

[qazplm]

22. would that be small states like

Virginia, Missouri, Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado...

Notice how several of those states were both primaries and battleground states?

If I were an Admissions Officer, I'd say it's too close to call and then I'd look to see what their "extracurricular activities" were like, and there, Clinton isnt doing so well.