Feb 5/08 Super Tuesday primaries issue

As you may have noticed, there are dozens of questions on HD related to the Feb 5th primaries. There is potentially a problem in many of these (some of the state primary questions) with settlement as each party in each state have their own rules for calculating delegates. If a candidate wins both the popular vote and the non-super delegate count for the state, then they have clearly won the state. But what if, as in the Nevada Democratic primary earlier this year, the delegate count winner is different from the popular vote winner?

Since there are so many of these questions, it is so close to the day in question, and it's exciting to have so many "closing soon" questions to predict, I'm NOT suggesting that these should be voided. That would be a real shame, I think.

But maybe the editor(s) could do something to correct the potential for ambiguity while keeping the questions. Arguably, unless the question states "popular vote", the intention in this case of "winning a primary" is getting the most delegates (the popular vote doesn't directly affect the convention totals, although it may affect momentum). This then begs the question, "What to do if there's a tie in delegates?", which might be settled by then going to the popular vote.

Alternatively, you could leave everything as is, but inform people that a question in which the pop. vote and delegate count differ will be voided.

As there's so many questions, you could just link each to an official policy announcement on this forum.

Hope I'm not just imagining trouble and making needless work for whomever.