(Mr. Obama won five of the seven delegates in the precinct).
Yancey and the Alabama delegation left the hall and were followed by the delegates of Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and two of the three delegates from Delaware.
Blaine was unacceptable to the Arthur delegates just as Blaine's own delegates would never vote for the President, so the contest was between the two for the delegates of the remaining candidates.
If the winner and runner-up both have between 20% and 66% of the vote, the winner receives two delegates and the runner-up gets one.
It was because of Israel's rejection of these last two demands, according to a Times of Israel report, that negotiations in Cairo between the two sides and delegates from the Palestinian Authority broke down on Thursday, hours before Israel embarked on its ground operation.
To the British, the line marked the geographic, ethnic, and administrative boundary between the two regions, and delegates from Great Britain, China, and Tibet agreed that the frontier between Tibet and northeastern India indeed should follow the crest of the high Himalayas.
Her aides have long argued that by the end of the voting, the difference between the two candidates in delegate count would be minimal, leaving the final decision to superdelegates, who in their view would favor Mrs. Clinton.
Other proposals call for splitting Florida's 210 delegates evenly between the two candidates, or reducing the state's delegate count by half.
This ignores that one of the "harsh realities" -- indeed, perhaps the harshest -- is that the Democratic system of delegate apportionment will likely prevent the gap in delegates between the two candidates from closing substantially, especially in a re-vote scenario.
This debate was actually the spark that created MakieLab back in 2010, when Taylor was at a digital conference in New York that was co-located with a toy fair – with some crossover in delegates between the two.
