It's All About the Delegates

Sun Mar 4, 2012 5:06 PM EST

Some candidates focus on a strategy of racking up the delegate count. But it can be a complicated and tricky process, that gives some states more influence than others. Think about it like this for a second: you're watching a baseball game where both teams are scoring runs, then when you look up at the scoreboard in the seventh inning, and it's blacked out. But just because it's unclear who's ahead, doesn't mean that it's a poor strategy. Look no further than 2008. While Hillary Clinton was winning Democratic strongholds like California, then CANDIDATE Barack Obama focused on states where a candidate can get the most delegates

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