First of all, every delegate matters, especially because Santorum gave up his chance at delegates in Virginia altogether, and botched an opportunity to win some of Ohio's delegates.
"Every delegate matters with the contests unfolding the way they are in both parties," said Professor Gary L. Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.
As a few of you may know, I'm running for president and I can tell you this: if I'm elected, I won't wait five days to pick up the phone or delegate matters of this magnitude to my secretary of state or to my ambassador.
"We are in a world in which delegates matter," said Ken Goldstein, a political science professor and the director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which just completed a study of campaign expenditures to date.
But I will request that as you process cable news, full of pundits exalting Clinton's inevitability, you remember a crucial fact: Pledged delegates matter more than superdelegates.
"You know, the popular vote matters, the delegate count matters, the swing states matter, my union matters, my wife matters.
"The allocation of delegates matters, the distribution of the delegates across the states matter, who's going to win more Congressional districts matters".
The state government has delegated matters of local interest to more than 40 local government areas in the Sydney region, including the City Council of Sydney, but has retained direct control of some important matters, such as police and transport.
In recent years Murdoch has delegated matters outside the US to his son James, but his swift and unplanned detour carries with it the implication that there is more here than the usual awkward dynamic of a parental visit.
