Submitted by Jason Manning, Jan 10, 2008 18:31

Obama didn't get "defeated" in New Hampshire in any meaningful sense. It's not about winning states, its about winning delegates within states. He got a bunch of delegates, Hillary got a fraction more. The fixation with reporting each state as being won/lost, as if this were the electoral college, or a best-of-seven world series, drives me nuts. If you want to write a truly useful article, explain the delegate system to readers and the idiots on tv .

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