We Take It Back: Missouri Delegates Revision

UPDATE Below

The headline reads: Bernie Sanders Wins Missouri After All

On March 15, Hillary Clinton narrowly won the Missouri primary with 49.6% of the vote, compared to Bernie Sanders’ 49.4% share of the vote. Since delegates are allocated proportionally, it was projected that Hillary Clinton would win 36 of the 71 pledged delegates, and Sanders would walk away with the other 35 delegates.

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With the change in the delegate count, Clinton is now leading by 204 delegates with 1,304 pledged delegates compared to 1,100 delegates for Sanders. This is much lower than the 250 delegate gap reported by the Associated Press. It’s even lower than the 214 delegate gap reported by the Sanders campaign.

  Progressive Army

Hoo boy. Bernie is even taking away wins Hillary already thought she had. She must be seething.  And establishment Dems must be getting nervous.  (Expect more of same.)

But the delegate selection process is not that simple. The voters in the primary do not directly elect the 71 national convention delegates as one might think. Instead, delegates from each candidate who are selected proportionally attend Mass Meetings on April 7 at the different wards, townships and counties across the state. The purpose of these meetings is to select District-Level delegates who would later elect the 71 pledged delegates to represent the candidates in the Democratic National Convention.

This process made sense more than half a century ago when communications were limited and technology nonexistent.

More sense, maybe. But it never made real sense.

However, just like in Nevada, many Hillary Clinton delegates didn’t show up to these meetings and Bernie Sanders was able to snatch more District-Level delegates than what he was supposed to have.

So, I guess the Bernie people will have to lay off the complaints about surrogates in Wyoming.  (Still looking for a cite...something I read somewhere.)

[I]f all District-Level delegates show up to the upcoming conventions, Sanders should get 37 pledged delegates and Clinton would get 34 delegates.

So, what you're telling us is, it's still not certain?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Well, that was quick.

Nearly a month after the Missouri primary on March 15, the state has finally certified Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the winners of their respective primaries.

  CBS