2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPosting for a friend - a newly minted Sanders delegate from an island in Puget Sound.
I am posting this for him. That is the long and short of my involvement. I have been steadfastly neutral this entire primary season and intend to remain so. My friend is a real liberal, a lot like me in his views. I would not be posting this for him were he otherwise.
I have zero hidden/locked posts and I hope you all will remain civil as this thread goes forward. Have fun and play nice. We're all in this together.
Am I wrong in my dissatisfaction with this? Is this in any way conducive to a healthy democracy? Am I missing something?
If so, please respond... ~R
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Looks like Bernie got 34/61 = 55.7% of the vote. Since there were 6 delegates to be assigned, 3-3 was 50% Bernie, whereas 4-2 would have been 66.7% Bernie. Which means 3-3 is closer to the actual vote percentages. So it's not really that outlandish.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)That said, unfortunately, here's the math:
You have six delegates to award.
61 people voted.
Hillary got 27 votes
Bernie got 34 votes
Now here's the math:
27/61 = .442623
34/61 = .557377
0.442623 X 61 = 2.655738
0.557377 X 61 = 3.344262
You have six delegates. Therefore, you MUST use rounding.
2.655 is rounded up to 3
3.34 is rounded down to 3
Sorry, Stinky's friend. The math done at the caucus was correct. Had the vote for Bernie been slightly higher, say 40 votes for instead of only 34, then his percentage of the six delegates would have gone up to 0.655738 and the resultant multiplier would be 3.9, while Hillary would have 21 votes and a multiplier of 2.1. Rounding would then give Bernie 4 and Hillary 2.
But, alas, the results were so close and the number of delegates so small that the delegates were split 3-3. Again, this is correct.
Mr Know-It-All
(5 posts)I think what's being described here is that as long as the DNC Party bosses keep allocating even numbers of delegates per precinct, one would need to win a "super majority" (60%) in order to pick up a single pledged delegate. Requiring a super majority is a defensive tactic designed to keep
An opposition at bay...