You guys are all forgetting about committed delegates.

[sniffa]

It doesn't matter who wins the votes, as the delegates will determine who our nominee is.

I feel sorry for morans who don't understand how Democracy works.

[fightindonkey]

1. True.

[JVS]

2. Go Hillary WOOOOOT!

[Honeycombe8]

3. I haven't. A friend and I are keeping track. CNN.com has a good tally. nt

[bunnies]

4. I hate that. It SUCKS. *stomping feet like a little kid*

No wonder why people dont think their vote matters.

[goldcanyonaz]

5. Glad you brought this up. An election truely isn't a popularity contest,, look at Gore.

[LSparkle]

6. Maybe I'm a moran ... but I thought that VOTES were important

in democracy.

Yeah, it's nice that HRC may have the "party faithful" on her side. But don't we "little people" count too? Geez, it may be true that we have to take our PARTY back first then THEN our country ... It's the Democratic Party, not the Clinton Party, after all.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Is that where they go? Institutionalized?

Condescension leads to constipation!

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Are they committed committed?

Can they change votes?

[EV_Ares]

9. sniffa or moron?????

[sniffa]

10. come again?

[Mythsaje]

11. Doesn't sound much like "democracy" to me. n/t

[no name no slogan]

12. That's true-- it's just like the electoral college

Before today, the top three candidates were separated by only TWO delegates.

[Gman]

13. All delegates are bound on the first vote at the convention

to who they have committed to. Delegates are apportioned by the states according to the state's method for selecting delegates. Every delegate that goes to the convention will be committed to a candidate, unless "Uncommitted" gets 15% in some state and sends Uncommitted delegates, which is highly unlikely.

Even including super-delegates, no state will send more delegates for a candidate than there are delegates apportioned to a candidate in that state. So all the talk about super-delegates is way off base.

For example, a state is sending 100 delegates, with 3 candidates getting 50-30-20 delegates each. The state has 10 super delegates. All 10 committed to the candidate with 50 delegates. This doesn't mean the candidate now gets 60 delegates. It means that the delegation for that candidate will send 40 elected delegates and 10 super delegates for a total of 50. Everyone else keeps what they earned.