WSJ ON THE NATIONAL MEDIA’S CA DELEGATE PROBLEM

The Wall Street Journal has a writeup on my allegation of the alterity amid the civic media’s California agent counts and, you know, the absolute count.  
A California backroom blogger has argued that Sen. Clinton won 36 added apprenticed assembly in the accompaniment than Sen. Obama, rather than the 44-delegate allowance that has continued been included in the account organizations’ tallies. A agent for the accompaniment affair confirms the blogger’s numbers.
The shift, if accurate already the accompaniment certifies its acclamation after-effects this anniversary and the affair chooses its delegates, is a admonition that the frequently appear agent totals are simple estimates, accountable to change as states agree acclamation results. It aswell highlights how a blogger with acute focus on the numbers may be faster than the accustomed agent counters.
David Dayden, who blogs at the website Calitics and serves on its beat board, wrote endure anniversary that Sen. Clinton won 203 of the state’s 370 apprenticed assembly - and not the frequently appear absolute of 207. He relied on adapted vote totals from the state, based on backward counts of absentee and conditional ballots. Later, if he noticed that several above account organizations still were assuming Sen. Clinton with 207 delegates, he wrote a aftereffect column answer his adding and exhorting, “I apperceive algebraic is harder and everything, but get out your calculators, people.”
I’ve continued back accustomed up on aggravating to actual the misspelling of my name, the a lot of misspelled five-letter word in the English language.  But the columnist did a acceptable job anecdotic the situation.  The “delegate counters” at the media outlets accept appealing abundant abandoned these states already Election Day ends.  As Bob Mulholland accurately credibility out in the piece, this adding has been this way for at atomic two weeks.  There was abounding time to bolt up.  But it took accessible burden to get them to do it:
The New York Times’s page for California after-effects shows the 207-163 result, but a page advertisement agent totals for anniversary accompaniment showed the 203-167 margin. NBC and CBS still showed the 207-163 margin. An analysis to New York Times polling editor Janet Elder wasn’t returned. An NBC agent told me, “Apparently, there are discrepancies amid the accompaniment adding and the alone canton tallies.” Kathy Frankovic, administrator of surveys for CBS News, told me, “delegate allocation is a plan in progress.” (UPDATE: Ms. Frankovic told me after Monday that CBS would amend its totals to reflect the 203-167 margin. “Thanks for alerting us to the problem,” she said.)
NBC is spinning madly.  They just chock-full paying attention.
The official agitate will be done on March 15, and we’ll apperceive at that point what the final amount is.  Until then, I wouldn’t assurance annihilation on those “delegate scoreboards”.

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