The American Caucus Oddity
WRITES Daniel Finklestein: “Here’s a quiz question. Mitt Romney won Mitt Romney won 25 delegates in the winner-takes-all state of Montana on Super Tuesday. How many votes did he get?”
I’ll help you by giving you a clue. In order to win 26 delegates from Arkansas yesterday, Mike Huckabee needed 120,776 voters.
Give up?
The answer is 625 votes. That wasn’t Romney’s winning margin incidentally. It was the total number of votes cast for the candidate.
Ron Paul came second with 400 votes, John McCain scored 358 and Mike Huckabee 245. The total number of voters was thus 1,628 in a state with approximately 740,000 people of voting age.
I don’t want to single out Montana or Romney. In Alaska Barack Obama won 9 delegates with the support of a grand total of 302 people. He required 51, 124 to win the same number of delegates from Delaware.
What is going on?
Posted: 7th, February 2008 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
