Sunday, February 10, 2008

Fuzzy Delegate Counts

If you wanted to know which candidate was leading in delegates, where would you look to find out? CNN? New York Times? Well, it turns out that depending on where you look, you will in fact get a completely different answer.

Delegate Counts as of 6am:

- NBC News:
Obama 861
Clinton 855
Obama +6

- CBS News:
Clinton 1118
Obama 1112
Clinton +6

- ABC News:
Clinton 1118
Obama 1095
Clinton +23

- AP:
Clinton 1095
Obama 1070
Clinton +25

- Fox News:
Clinton 1084
Obama 1054
Clinton +30

- CNN:
Clinton 1100
Obama 1039
Clinton +61

- Mydd.com:
Clinton 1046
Obama 940
Clinton +106

- NYTimes:
Clinton 912
Obama 714
Clinton +198

Ya, only slightly ridiculous!

On a side note, the world will wake up this morning to the following headlines:

USA Today: Obama sweeps Dem races
Toronto Star: Obama sweeps three states
International Herald Tribune: Obama gets convincing wins in 3 states
Times of London: Barack Obama trounces Hillary Clinton
Sydney Morning Herald: Clean sweep for Obama
Le Monde: "Super samedi" pour Obama
Al Jazeera: Obama sweeps primary contests

So in case you weren't aware, the whole world is rightfully watching the US primaries very closely. This fact seems to come as a surprise to most Americans though.

~BT

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