<div>Ask and you shall receive. Much appreciated, Regina. I see exactly where the Post went wrong -- they took the 46 chosen by congressional district number and declared that to be the total number of voter-chosen delegates. Shame on them. I will write the Post today. Thanks, again for the legwork on getting the clarification.</div>
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<div>Of course that still leaves 29% of our delegates as super delagates -- still apparently above the national average, and certainly still way above what some would take to be a reasonable number. But I am at least satisfied to know we're not a total outlier.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Regina M. Kreger</b> <<a href="mailto:regina@kreger.net">regina@kreger.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">I posted the question in the comments on <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegates-who-havent-endorsed.html" target="_blank">http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegates-who-havent-endorsed.html</a> -- a website which is maintaining a list of superdelegates' candidate endorsements. They only list 20 for Maryland, between those who have and those who have not endorsed. Here is the response I got:<br>
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<p>Today's Washington Post lists far more superdelegates for Maryland (I didn't check D.C. & Virginia, they may be different too). "Maryland will send 99 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Of those, 46 will be chosen Feb. 12, and the rest will be chosen by the party."<span class="q"><br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012702377.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012702377.html</a></span></p>
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<dt><a name="117daceaf766de9a_c660966473961730055"></a><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02126730290750804530" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matt</a> said...
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<p>Who you going to believe, the Washington Post or us? Here's the breakdown. Maryland has 99 total delegates. 70 are allocated by the primary, 46 by congressional district, and 24 allocated statewide. That leaves 29 superdelegates, 27 regular ones, and 2 add-ons. As a clarification, while the state party does pick 9 of the statewide delegates, but they are pledged delegates chosen based on the primary results.</p>
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<div><span class="e" id="q_117daceaf766de9a_3"><br><br>Dwight Holmes wrote:
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<div>Did anyone else catch this in last Monday's Post? I found it quite shocking and disheartening. We've all heard about the 'super delegate' phenomenon... According to this (below) when Dems vote on the 12th in the Maryland Democratic primary, we will be selecting only 46 delegates out of Maryland's total of 99 that will attend the convention in Denver. So that means we will NOT be choosing 53 of the delegates -- more than half.</div>
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<div>What's with that?? I thought MD was now a non-smoking state!! ;-)</div>
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<div>Now it doesn't clearly state that the missing 53 delegates are all "super delegates" -- and that would be a very high number, since the national total is something around 800 -- doesn't seem like Maryland should get 1/16 of all super delegates. So maybe something else is at work here -- could even be a typo!</div>
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<div>Anybody here know more about this?</div>
<div> </div><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012702377.html" target="_blank"><font color="#d3501a"><b>Maryland (link to Washington Post article of 1/28/08)</b><br>
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<li>The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Those registered in the Democratic and Republican parties can vote in their party's primary. The primaries include the presidential and congressional contests and nonpartisan school board races. </li>
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<li>Maryland will send 99 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Of those, 46 will be chosen Feb. 12, and the rest will be chosen by the party. A candidate must get more than 15 percent of the vote to receive delegates. </li>
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<li>On the <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Republican+Party?tid=informline" target="_blank"><font color="#0c4790">GOP</font></a> side, 37 delegates will go the convention, of which 24 will be chosen Feb. 12 and the rest by the party. </li>
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<div>I've put this on the Wiki along with a voter registration lookup/info site:</div>
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