jace

I'm getting sick of people throwing around the words "win" and "lose" when it comes to the primaries and caucuses. This isn't a football game, where if you score the most points you win the whole thing. To continue using an already lame comparison, if a football game worked like the primaries/caucuses do, each team would get credit for all the points they score, not just a win/loss for the end result of the whole game. Get it? If you get 40% of the vote in a primary, you get 40% of the delegates that state sends to the convention. So if one person gets 51% of the vote, and another person gets 49% of the vote, there really isn't a whole lot of difference between the success they had. One person gets, say, 49 delegates, and another gets 51.

Throwing around the word "win" makes it seem like they accomplished a lot more than that, and it's really not an accurate way to describe the results. Thanks, media.