This could be true (those delegates have not actually been assigned yet), but the difference would be far too small to alter the dynamics of the race.
It is true that no delegates will be chosen on Tuesday night, and it is true that the Iowa caucuses have far from a perfect predictive track record, especially on the Republican side.
In this paper, we revisit the rationale for delegation to a weight-conservative central banker when the social planner's knowledge about the true preferences of delegates is ex ante ambiguous and he exhibits a preference for robustness.
It is true that no delegate leaves a conference with a perfect document, but last year in Copenhagen we caught a glimpse of the potential we have if we tackle this global crisis together.
True, much has been delegated to schools, but over that which the government believes matters most - the curriculum, assessment, teaching methods, teacher training, quality assurance... control from Sanctuary Buildings [the headquarters of the DfES] and Downing Street is now absolute".
In a speech at the conference, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, a former prime minister who is a graduate of another grande école, the business school E.S.C.P., told the delegates that "the true strength of France is her educational capacity".
There were two key things in 2008 that are also true in 2016. 1. Pledged delegates, the ones won from primaries and caucuses, and unpledged delegates, also known as superdelegates, all vote on the first ballot, taken state by state.
"People soured on him, it's true," said Ranae Lentz, an Ohio delegate.
The same will be true of the overwhelming majority of Fifa delegates gathering for their congress in Zurich on Wednesday.
And it's true that business secretary Vince Cable told party conference delegates that he would ask the Low Pay Commission to restore its value.
