Wed May 28, 12:30 AM Pacific • posted by Jed Lewison
Mark Halperin's new math?
Maybe someone from DCW can help me figure out how Mark Halperin makes this a net gain of 2 for Clinton (you can see a screen capture here):
Tuesday’s Super Battle
Net gain: Obama 0, Clinton 2*
CLINTON GETS: Virgin Islands DNC super Kevin Rodriquez, who switches back to Clinton after previously moving to Obama. Read release.
OBAMA GETS: Wyoming party vice chair Nancy Drummond. Read release.
*Rodriquez’s switch takes one away from Obama, gives Clinton back an additional super. Permalink
So...Obama -1 (Rodriguez), Clinton +1 (Rodriguez), Obama +1 (Drummond). Obama nets 0, Clinton 1.
I would say it was just a typo, but the fact that Halperin used an asterisk to explain his math tells me he actually put some thought into this one. And that's...scary. I guess now we know why some folks in the media still think the popular vote is a meaningful metric.
(Halperin also didn't mention that Obama picked up Ben Pangelinan of Guam, so on the day, each candidate actually netted 1 superdelegate.)