According to MSNBC, Hillary Clinton “won” Nevada. But, it looks like she “won” the Nevada primary in about the same way that Al Gore “won” the U.S. election in 2000 (momentarily putting aside the “unpleasantness” in Florida.) According to MSNBC’s election data (at least as I’m viewing it at (9:10 EST on 1/19/08), Clinton won the popular vote for the state, but under the rules for selecting delegates, Obama won 13 delegates while Clinton won 12.
I suppose you have to be clear on the object of the exercise to know who won or lost. (And, for what it’s worthy, the candidate I favor — John Edwards — clearly lost, with 4% of the vote (the caucus system makes it look worse than it actually was, though it wasn’t good by any measure) and 0 delegates.)
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