{"id":13176,"date":"2012-02-28T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13176"},"modified":"2012-02-28T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:11:33","slug":"michigan%e2%80%99s-tricky-delegate-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13176\/michigan%e2%80%99s-tricky-delegate-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan\u2019s Tricky Delegate Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0212\/73375.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a> notes that \u201cThe rules pit the real race for Michigan at the district, not statewide level.\u201d\u00a0 Here\u2019s what that means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michigan awards its 30 delegates based on the new congressional district lines drawn in 2012 redistricting, with two delegates given to the candidate who wins each of 14 districts. Two additional delegates are allocated based on the statewide popular vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, the winner of the state\u2019s popular vote may not be the same candidate who wins a majority of the state\u2019s delegates.<\/p>\n<p>The takeaway is to be wary of statewide exit polls that declare a \u201cwinner\u201d since what really matters in terms of GOP convention delegates is who won a majority of new congressional districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico notes that \u201cThe rules pit the real race for Michigan at the district, not statewide level.\u201d\u00a0 Here\u2019s what that means: Michigan awards its 30 delegates based on the new congressional district lines drawn in 2012 redistricting, with two delegates given to the candidate who wins each of 14 districts. Two additional delegates are allocated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1193,814,160,2400,1784,1084],"class_list":["post-13176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-michigan","tag-mitt-romney","tag-primary","tag-republican","tag-rick-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13180,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions\/13180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}