{"id":196968,"date":"2008-03-11T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/11\/caucus-delegates-are-different\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:41:00","slug":"caucus-delegates-are-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/11\/caucus-delegates-are-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Caucus Delegates ARE Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s comment as to the differences between primary and caucus delegates.  Josh Marshall has an <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/182722.php\">analysis that shows this is not a meaningless distinction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, caucus goers do not select delegates.  They select representatives who go to the next level, either county or state wide, and at the end of this process, a delegate is selected.<\/p>\n<p>So, if Obama representatives do not show up at these meetings, it is possible, and completely within the rules, for Clinton representatives to pick up some delegates this way.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we have Obama supporters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/3\/11\/05659\/3925\/970\/471945\">whining that it&#8217;s not fair<\/a>, but given that he raised $55 million dollars in February, investing a million or so in making sure that their representatives actually show up to the higher level caucuses would be a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s comment as to the differences between primary and caucus delegates. Josh Marshall has an analysis that shows this is not a meaningless distinction. Specifically, caucus goers do not select delegates. They select representatives who go to the next level, either county or state wide, and at the end &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}