By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, February 08, 2008 at 2:42 PM
From the Missouri Democratic Party... Labels: Election_Day, Presidential_Primaries, Results
The Missouri Democratic Party today preliminarily awarded 36 delegates each to Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton following their thrilling performances in Tuesday’s Missouri Presidential Primary.
By virtue of his 10,479-vote victory statewide, Obama won Missouri’s statewide delegates by a 13-12 margin, while Clinton won Missouri’s congressional district delegates by a 24-23 margin.
According to the Missouri Democratic Party delegate selection plan, Missouri Democrats award 72 of their 88 delegates proportionally based on how the presidential candidates perform in the primary. Of those 72 delegates, 25 are awarded proportionally based on statewide performance, while 47 of the delegates are awarded proportionally based on performance in Missouri’s nine congressional districts. Congressional districts with higher past Democratic performance receive a greater share of the 47 delegates. Candidates must meet a 15 percent threshold to qualify for delegates. Therefore, the percentages in the following chart do not include votes cast for candidates that did not meet the threshold. The delegate breakdown is as follows:
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(* The statewide vote totals are slightly more than the sum of the congressional district totals because some local election authorities have not assigned absentee votes to their appropriate precincts yet. This should not affect the delegate totals for either candidate.)
The remaining 16 of Missouri’s 88 Democratic delegates are unpledged superdelegates, who are members of Missouri’s Democratic Congressional delegation, Missouri members of the Democratic National Committee, and distinguished party leaders. These superdelegates will cast their vote at the August Democratic National Convention in Denver for their favorite candidate, regardless of Tuesday’s primary results.
8 Comments:
Ah, it's good to see machine politics are alive and well in the Democrat party! Wonder how much folks will get paid for their "Superdelegates?"
McCaskill still owed her pathetic gubernatorial campaign around $500,000 last I heard. Shall we start the bidding there????
2/08/2008 3:21 PM
How is that machine politics? I did not hear the same statement made when Obama lost Nevada but got MORE delegates in the same state.
2/08/2008 3:33 PM
These numbers are quite interesting when you look at them closely. They show how little clout/power the Carnahan and Cleaver name has with people of their Congressional District when endorsing candidates.
African garb wearing Congressman Emmanuel Clever (D-5th) endorsed Hillary Clinton but Obama won his District by greater numbers than in the 3rd District represented by Congressman Russ Carnahan who endorsed Obama!
By the way, what the hell is Congressman Maxine Waters doing endorsing Hillary Clinton. Is the same talking grit shegro that cries how black she is all the time?
The word is that she sold her soul for a nickel and didn't get any change! Congressman Maxine Waters can't come to St. Louis anymore acting like she is blacker than black! She is in the same boat as Mayor Slay!
2/08/2008 3:51 PM
^ So, this really is all about race?
2/08/2008 4:03 PM
Yes, anonymous, sadly it is all about race.
It didn't start out that way. Obama started by winning lily-white Iowa and followed with a narrow loss in lily-white New Hampshire. But then the Clintons played the race card in South Carolina. They disparaged MLK's role in the civil rights movement as subordinate to LBJ's, and then they went through the motions of campaigning for black votes, all to create the image among white voters that black voters were bloc-voting for Obama, to create a race-based reaction among white voters to vote for Hillary. Bill sealed the deal after SC by comparing Obama's SC win to those of Jesse Jackson, relegating Obama to being just "a black candidate" instead of a candidate who happens to be black.
Unfortunately for the Clintons, the media picked up on the ploy, causing many whites (especially men) to go for Obama.
2/08/2008 5:45 PM
But that was then, this is now. It's not about race at all with the Obama supporters, not at all. The ONLY people that bring up race in this campaign are the Clinton's, and the press that repeat their words. Obama has not injected race or gender into the equation. NEVER. Did you get that, NEVER.
Go ahead and feed yourselves off that line. That is indeed what Clinton supporters do for themselves in order to avoid the bigger obstacles of Clinton lies and Clinton corruption. Eat it up. Smart people know better.
2/08/2008 11:14 PM
I agree that Clinton is the only candidate to raise race. However, the "identity politics" of African American vote totals is fairly noted.
I thoroughly disagree that "the press that repeat their [i.e., the Clinton campaign's] words" are to be faulted. The fact that the Clinton campaign is race-baiting and the words that document their transgressions are legitimate news, and to suppress such reporting would be an egregious assault on freedom of the press.
2/09/2008 12:29 AM
Please list the 16 superdelegates by name. Why the secrecy? I know it isn't secrecy---but---the most important thing to know---is left out.
Make these 16 people so well known, that there is no chance their actions will not be completely transparent to all---well before it is too late.
2/09/2008 12:18 PM
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