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Okay, not sure if this has gotten any national play or if the election grognards already know this or what but , just in case ...
It's quite possibly, or even likely, that tomorrow someone here will see the GA results with Trump-Rubio-Cruz finishing in that order but Cruz getting 3-4 more delegates than Rubio.
I would have been confused but I read the actual rules for hte state primary & delegate assignment earlier today so I'll share.
A portion of the delegates in GA are distributed on a Congressional district level, the rest on the basis of statewide totals. Any candidate who gets 50% in a district gets all 3 delegates, otherwise the top two finishers in that district get 2 & 1. Right now, the working totals show Rubio with zero delgates & Cruz with 5., despite Rubio having a small lead in total vote. For the time being that's probably districts where Cruz is the declared runner-up while the other districts are still TBD. Their statewide total is virtually even, so the difference in delegates between them on that portion is probably only 1. So Cruz could conceivably finish with more votes but fewer delegates.
Simple, right?
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