Did McCain Nearly Sweep California?
It would appear so, based on CNN.com's county-by-county breakdown of the California primary.
Of the 58 counties in the state, it appears Romney only won three; and all by razor-thin margins. He won Fresno by 541 votes, Shasta by 662 votes, and Sierra by 14 votes.
Now, California is not a winner-take-all state, but neither is it directly proportional. Instead, California's delegates are awarded on a county-by-county basis. Generally speaking, the winner of each county receives 3 delegates (with a few quirks and nuances here and there).
Given this semi-propotional delegate allocation, many had believed the race in California to be largely psychological; that the race would be close enough that both McCain and Romney would take up a fair number of delegates, and that the overall vote total was more about bragging rights than anything else.
But if these numbers are accurate, McCain won't just have won the bragging rights, but an absolutely overwhelming number of the state's delegates, too, thanks to remarkably broad support across its counties.
In other words, California might not have been winner-take-all, but given McCain's across-the-board domination, it might as well have been.
» February 6th, 2008
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