Obama wins 'global primary'
Elana Schor in Washington
Barack Obama today scored his 11th straight victory over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democrat nomination after a convincing win in the "global primary" of Democrats living overseas.
Obama took 66% of the vote to 33% for Clinton after Americans living in more than 160 countries cast their presidential ballots by mail, fax, and Internet during the weeklong primary conducted by Democrats Abroad. His victory was even stronger than average in the UK, where he took 69% of the vote to Clinton's 30%.
Despite Obama's strong showing, he and Clinton will come close to splitting the delegate votes from the overseas primary. Obama won 2.5 delegates to count towards this summer's nominating convention, while Clinton won 2.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/barackobama.hillaryclinton1
So I have a question: If he won by a 2 to 1 margin, how does he only get 2.5 delegates to Hillary's 2? Shouldn't it be 3 to 1.5?
I doubt that a half-delegate is going to really matter, but what gives? How does that work out?