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No one has claimed America’s right to vote is easy. With the decisive battle in 24 states on Tuesday always crop up more questions which I would like to answer at least a few. Who chooses where like - and what is emerging?

What is at stake in the primaries? Delegates

We still are in the pre-election phase to determine where the two major parties, who for them in the election on 4 November should take. Formally, Democrats and Republicans choose their candidate at the party until the autumn, but this is mere formality. Now, with the primaries in the states of all the candidates face the vote of the electorate. The votes are translated into a certain number of delegates, which in turn (at the party, select the appropriate candidate must).

For the Democrats, there are a total of 4049 delegates. 2025 Who gets together and has thus gained the majority. However, among the Democrats, not all delegates determined by the area code. 796 are the so called super delegates, representatives of the party establishment, which are bound to the Congress on a mandate and can unentschieden still until the last minute. [More]

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But what remains away from the Horse Race Journalism, which deals with the performance of the candidates, their opportunities and prospects, trends, and the ominous momentum?

Nevertheless, the perspective on the mechanism of the primaries themselves and their history probably unprecedented - at least on the part of Democrats. In the Republican camp, although it fell still no final decision, but it looks here, after a more or less “normal” course: the three-way fight between John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, there is now a clear front-runner who auseinandersetzen with two pursuers need to make each other candidate for the heavy.

But the Democrats in the head-to-neck race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and considers the successes and failures are not spread in a pattern that allows a clear prediction for the primaries still lack. But this is quite remarkable - despite the enormous media attention that has this super-duper, tsunami, or-as-well-has always given Tuesday, no stock can decisively prevail. Thus, the tour continues through the country and now focuses on the lack of supporters still markets. [More]

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A key economic advisers Republican candidate for the White House made a gaffe Tuesday saying that neither John McCain nor his cloistered Sarah Palin had the necessary experience to lead a large company. “Do you think Sarah Palin has the experience necessary to lead a large company like Hewlett Packard?”, Asked Carly Fiorina a journalist of a local radio Missouri (centre). [More]

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McCain would be in office in the White House in January 2009 with 72 years the oldest so far for a first term of office of elected U.S. president. Thus, the deputy, in sickness or death over the office, he has become even more important. The senator from Arizona will always be his lack of business experience accused, he is also the right wing of the Republicans are not conservative enough. This is the ideal candidate outlined: Relatively young, in good health, wirtschaftserfahren tight and conservative.Chemistry between Romney and McCain is not trueSince the former competitors would Mitt Romney called into question. He is 60 years old, a former governor, successful entrepreneur and unlike McCain a good donation collectors. But this team seems hardly conceivable, because reportedly agrees with the chemistry between the two. [More]

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Hillary Clinton yesterday in Puerto Rico won its last victory in the Democratic primary U.S., which concludes tomorrow. With 90 percent of the votes counted, Clinton has gained 68 percent and Obama 32%, with a difference in votes of just over one hundred thousand. Of the 2.3 million Puerto Ricans eligible to vote went to the polls just over 15%, a share far below expected.Clinton stressed that he has received about 17.6 million votes, some hundreds of thousands more who Obama, and has gained further in the states considered crucial in the November elections. But following the decision of the leaders democrats, adopted at the National Committee of his party, which halved the value of votes of the elections penalized Florida and Michigan, Obama accumulated a total of 2,051 delegates and Clinton has of 1,877 delegates. [More]

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Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has said that today could be the “last day” in the campaign of his wife, Hillary, toward the Democrat nomination, which seemed to fuel speculation about when might abandon the race. “This may be the last day on which I am involved in a campaign of this kind,” said the former president in an electoral event in South Dakota, that the next morning along with Montana closing the long process of primary Democrats. “I thought that was out of politics until he decided to compete Hillary” (the presidency), added Bill Clinton, who said he has been one of the greatest honors of his life to campaign for his wife. [More]

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Hillary Clinton won on Sunday by wide margin in the Democratic primary in Puerto Rico, according to vote projections made by the television channel CNN, although insufficient to win the nomination. Voter turnout was much smaller than expected, according to the low influx of voters at polling stations in San Juan and it is estimated that the abstention was around 80%.
With 90% of the votes counted, Clinton has gained 68% and Obama with a 32 and the difference in votes of just over one hundred thousand followers when Clinton expecting no less than two hundred thousand. Of the 2.3 million Puerto Ricans eligible to vote went to the polls just over 15%. The victory was expected Clinton and Barack Obama acknowledged that the senator from New York was the overwhelming favorite. [More]

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“I am the candidate,” the party to victory against the Republicans can lead, called Clinton supporters in San Juan. When the delegates votes, the former First Lady still hopelessly behind their internal rivals Barack Obama. This is according to a spokesperson from them, nor this week the necessary majority for the candidature behind it.
Clinton arrived after counting 99 percent of the electoral districts to 68 percent of the vote in Puerto Rico. On Obama accounted for only 32 percent. However, the inhabitants of the island, with the United States is associated, in the presidential election not to vote. [More]

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The result was no surprise: Hillary Clinton has the Democratic primaries in Puerto Rico after counting all votes with nearly 68 percent as expected, well before its rivals Barack Obama won just once on 32 percent came from. After her Erdrutschsieg they reaffirmed their right to democratic presidential candidacy. “Let us continue,” said Clinton, cheering the lot on Sunday evening (local time) in San Juan zu.Und but it brings little success. Obamas lead in the overall standings of the delegates votes so that they can not catch up. Even a compromise on the satzungswidrig early primaries in Michigan and Florida brought Hillary Clinton is no longer crucial to Barack Obama approached. [More]

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After a turbulent debate, the leadership of the U.S. Democrats in the thorny issue of the evaluation of codes of Florida and Michigan in favour of Barack Obama decided. The Rules Committee of the party was on Saturday evening (local time) that the delegates of both countries shared equally the right to vote at the party nomination in late will receive. That leaves the senator to a calculation of the U.S. television channel CNN from Saturday still far in the lead before his rival. Obama will be in 2050 delegates votes, Clinton in 1877. To secure the nomination, are now 2118 delegates notwendig.Barack Obama, the decision immediately recognized. [More]

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