CNN Projects 7 delegates for Romney, Santorum, and Paul each; 2 for Gingrich, and Perry.

[Uriah]

Listen.

I live in Iowa. It can be confusing but here it is. Iowa gets 28 delegates to the national convention. Twenty-five of them are chosen through a selection process that I will briefly describe below and the remaining three are from state central committee, such as the chairman etc.

At the precinct level(all 1,784 of them) delegates and alternates were nominated and elected to attend their respective Republican County Convention held on March 10th. Delegates may have a preferred candidate but their is no commitment. This theoretical 7,7,7,2,2 is all nonsense. Usually delegates represent the turnout of the popular vote but if there is a well organized candidate that has passionate supporters they tend to do better with the delegate process. From the county level convention delegates are then selected to advance to the district convention and from there on to the state and then the national convention. This process is not over until June of this year. There is too much time and tiers to tell whom got what, regarding delegates.

 

[jersdream]

That means Romney had an 11 point lead before the game even started in Iowa???

I don't even...

HOW IS THIS FAIR???


*raging hard*

Yes. Going into Iowa, Romney had 11 pledged delegates, Perry 2, and Santorum 1.

Though apparently, CNN may not have it exactly right. This page Romney 12, Perry 2, and santorum 1.

http://www.democraticconventionwatch.com/diary/4726/republican-superdelegate-endorsement-list

 

[Fetou]

Apparently the Democratic Convention Watch kept track in 2008 and is again this year of the superdelegates, of which there are apparently 132 which are not bound by the decision of the primary/caucus. If these figures are correct, does it somehow imply that Paul actually got the most delegates in Iowa, disregarding superdelegates?

 

[MaxPower]

In short, we did just fine, we're very much in the game for the nomination, and the people who've fallen into despair really need to get hold of themselves and get some perspective.