Romney’s Fishy Delegate Claim<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nWhy is the former Massachusetts governor telling folks that he leads in delegates?<\/p>\n
In Boston today, Romney told supporters, "we have more delegates than any other Republican candidate running for president."<\/p>\n
Here’s the ABC News GOP Delegate Estimate:<\/p>\n
Huckabee – 31
\nRomney – 19
\nMcCain – 7
\nThompson – 3
\nHunter – 1
\nGiuliani – 0
\nPaul – 0<\/p>\n
According to my pal, ABC News’ John Berman, the count the Romney folks have is:<\/p>\n
Romney – 15
\nMcCain – 12
\nThompson – 3
\nHuckabee – 2
\nHunter – 1
\nGiuliani – 0
\nPaul – 0<\/p>\n
Explains Berman, "the way they are doing this is by simply not counting Iowa. They say that Iowa’s delegates are not technically committed through the caucus process, and so, instead of extrapolating how the delegates would be apportioned (which is what media, such as ABC News and the Associated Press, do) they just pretend like Iowa did not happen."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Right. Like he’s pretending all those nice things he said about gay equality while he was governor of Massachusetts didn’t happen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not McCain. Not Huckabee. Via Brad DeLong… Mitt Romney Is Ahead in the Republican Race Matthew Yglesias points out that Mitt Romney is ahead in delegates: I saw some sentiment on TV last night that Michigan is must win for Romney, but I don’t really see it that way. Second place finishes are survivable for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[34,19],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-george-bushs-america","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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