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tandem5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 04:19 PM
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25. I agree that the popular vote without the caucus numbers is an incomplete...
assessment, but this doesn't give any credence to the idea that the delegate tally is a better metric for determining will. In fact the whole point of delegates is to give more power to states with smaller populations at the expense of individual voters:

It takes ~10,000 people to appoint one delegate in California with average turnout and ~4600 people to appoint one delegate in Wyoming with 100% turnout.
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