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Who Will Win Super Tuesday Democratic Primary?
Monday February 04th 2008, 9:52 am
Filed under: American Politics, - Democrats

So who will “win” in tomorrow’s Super Tuesday Democratic primaries — Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? It’s too close to call, but it is likely that neither candidate will emerge as the clear-cut favorite. Keep in mind that the number of delegates is what matters, not the overall popular vote. But determining the number of delegates is tricky because a) allocation of delegates is done proportionally, but b) it is done partially at the district level and partially at-large, depending on the state. Adding to the complexity are the shifts in the polls we’re seeing across the country towards Obama. But, as the establishment candidate, Clinton has a more extensive, more established and more experienced ground campaign — and a more-likely-to-vote demographic — which could blunt Obama’s momentum. Based on the latest polling and some good ol’ fashioned guesswork in states without polls, here is an estimate of the delegate count that we might see tomorrow. As you can see, I expect Clinton to come out of Super Tuesday with a slight edge in delegates, about 52% to 48% for Obama, with just over half of the delegates accounted for. In order words, there is a long road still ahead after Tuesday…

Estimated Number of Delegates

STATE CLINTON OBAMA TOTAL
California 182 188 370
New York 138 94 232
Illinois 45 108 153
New Jersey 58 49 107
Massachusetts 55 38 93
Georgia 34 53 87
Missouri 38 34 72
Minnesota* 38 34 72
Tennessee 39 29 68
Arizona 30 26 56
Colorado* 27 28 55
Alabama 26 26 52
Connecticut 25 23 48
Oklahoma* 24 14 38
Arkansas* 21 14 35
Kansas* 16 16 32
New Mexico* 14 12 26
Utah* 9 14 23
Idaho* 7 11 18
Delaware* 8 7 15
North Dakota* 7 6 13
Alaska* 7 6 13
Americans Abroad* 4 3 7
American Samoa* 2 1 3
Total Estimated Super Tuesday 854 834 1688
Previously Elected 48 63 111 1
Total Elected 902 897 1799 1
Declared “Superdelegates” 213 127 340 2
Total Thru Super Tuesday 1115 1024 2139 3
Delegates Elected After Tuesday - - 1378
Undeclared Edwards Delegates - - 26
Undeclared “Superdelegates” (approx.) - - 457
GRAND TOTAL (approx.) - - 4000

Note
* no or very limited poll data
1 Does not include 26 elected delegates for John Edwards
2 Does not include 123 undeclared superdelegates
3 Does not include Edwards or undeclared delegates


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I found a really comprehensive prediction on Daily Kos here.

There’s also the daily polling tracking done at Gallup that shows Obama gaining huge momentum.

I think Super Tuesday will be close, but Obama’s momentum will take him over the top in the weeks that follow.

Comment/commentaire by Chris 02.04.08 @ 12:06 pm

I don’t know how many people have been looking at Google Trends to tell us who is the more popular Democrat candidate but Obama has certainly won Google.
http://www.firetop.co.uk/2008/02/04/barack-obama-to-win-super-tuesday/

Comment/commentaire by Matt Peskett 02.05.08 @ 4:14 am

Not one of your better estimates, I have to say, as you underestimited Obama in just about every state and then over-represented him in California (that darn Zogby, I assume, got my hopes up and threw you off).

Instead of 854/834 Clinton, it looks like Obama will wind up a couple of (pledged) delegates ahead of her—both for the night, and overall though of course superdelegates mean Clinton retains a narrow lead.

Comment/commentaire by Wednesday Keller 02.06.08 @ 3:03 am

I’m now captivated by the Democratic race. It looks as close as the 2000 Presidential election was. Kind of a neat system where Texas can still have a major voice in electing the next US President.
Previously I’d believed Hillary’s environment platform to be slightly superior (it looks like a couple billion $$ a year extra on green power generation research vs. Barack putting that money into CCS), and health platform slightly superior (universal vs. 15 million short of universality). But I could be swayed by the debates ahead.
Basically, whoever campaigns to steepen highend income tax rates the most, cut oil breaks and military-industrial complex funding (though biosensors and container x-ray scanners are always welcome) the most, and directing the proceeds to health, education, the environment and a budget in the black; whoever campaigns on this J.Edwards-ian platform would get my nod. It is sickening to see corporatism stifle climate change research abroad.
Hillary’s strong team is cancelled by Obama’s previous no-war-in-Iraq stand (if this were 2000, 38 year old Obama hands down). I don’t really know if any single leader is strong enough to bring America into the 21st century geopolitical world. When the US withdraws from Iraq, Al-Qaeda and/or Iran will vie for her oil. And how do you fight a transnational population that attacks you when you aren’t willing to operate in a nation in which they partially reside? Has America gamed how not to initiate a nuclear winter if they are nuked by terrorists? The US is already failing the Global Warming challenge badly (in part because China and India are industrializing in a very American way) and this is just the start of the 21st century…

Comment/commentaire by Phillip Huggan 02.12.08 @ 11:22 pm

Being forceful can certainly be a good thing for the world’s civilian population.
Just as 3rd (IDK about 4th) generation nuclear reactors require enormous decommissioning costs (lasting millenia; it could be the only real estate and geology unusable to our multi-PH.D’ed great great grandchildren is radioactive dump sites) covered by taxpayers and not utilities, nuclear weapon systems impose can impose costs covered by an increased threat of nuclear war, and not taxpayers.

Nuclear weapon early warning systems degrade. So do weapon storage army bases. A country that can’t afford to keep its nuclear weapon systems from degrading is a threat. This happened with Russia/USSR in the 1980s and 1990s. I hope they are modernizing/maintaining their early warning radar systems (in a way that itself isn’t dangerous) and paying army salaries now. But this could happen again. Once a nation gets somewhere around a dozen nukes (less and they are likely to try to keep their nuke programme secret) and rockets suitable to their theatre, they become a playa. It would be good if someone big and strong forced them to save a big enough trust, or hold enough currency reserves with whoever builds their nuclear weapon systems, so that the weapons can be maintained in pepertuity or as long as is desired.
A big bully can probably exert enough influence to force all nuclear powers to pay for this service. Canada can’t do it, too puny. I hope the next American president is up to the task. Unless….the American public wants to leave it for the French?
Stockpiling nuclear sprockets and cogs will be expensive, but so would an accidental war.

Comment/commentaire by Phillip Huggan 02.14.08 @ 10:11 pm



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