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Pennsylvania’s Missed Opportunity
BobbyDelray
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3-6-2008 3:12 PM
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Barack Obama narrowly leading Sen. Hillary Clinton in delegates after the Ohio and Texas votes (margins vary this morning, as <A href="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/obama-gains-but-delegate-counters-still-disagree-275/">they usually do</A>, from <A href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/#D">86</A> to <A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660914">132</A>), Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary looms as the biggest race remaining, with 158 delegates at stake.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/pennsylvanias-missed-opportunity-292/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.wsj.com/img/FAD550EE-1B6E-4135-9481-A50BE077D941" alt="calculator" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/pennsylvanias-missed-opportunity-292/">It could have been even bigger.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/pennsylvanias-missed-opportunity-292/">Any state whose primary was held before April in 2004, and opted to hold this year’s primary in April, would gain a 15% bonus on their base delegate total. (It’s spelled out on the first two pages of the party’s <A href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/apache.3cdn.net/87b58105c024e2d151_bum6be6vb.pdf">call to the convention</A>.) Move your primary from before May 1 to afterwards, and pick up a 30% bonus. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/pennsylvanias-missed-opportunity-292/">Pennsylvania was best-positioned to pick up a big bonus at little cost.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/pennsylvanias-missed-opportunity-292/">Instead it <A href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/nomination-calendar.htm">settled for April 22</A>, and a 5% bonus.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/pennsylvanias-missed-opportunity-292/">That cost Pennsylvania 33 extra delegates to the convention</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/pennsylvanias-missed-opportunity-292/">Abe Amoros, executive director of the Pennsylvania Democratic party, told me it was up to the legislature to set the primary date. “I have never heard the argument of moving it to May,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC49C9F0-C5CC-4353-AE63-0286A43A5E54/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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