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2 Caucuses are being discouraged because they are undemocratic.  
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3 Timeline?  
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Talk Page Consensus[edit]

Summary of Talk Page Consensus
This article has benefited from the collaboration of many editors. This infobox provides a summary of consensus decisions that have been reached. Feel free to re-open discussion on any of these points; however, please first consult the talk page and its archives so that you have a sense of the prior conversation. As new consensus items emerge, please list them here.
  • The focus of this article is on the process of the 2008 Democratic nomination. It is appropriate to include the most important top-level results from the primaries and caucuses. Detailed results should be left to the main results article, Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries, and the individual state results articles. (1)
  • No popular vote totals are reported here. See Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries and the individual state articles for those totals. (1)
  • The top table should not include a column for "states won." (1)
  • Candidates are ordered first by pledged delegate count and second by alphabetical order. The table is sortable by column if readers prefer to see the candidates in a different order. By consensus, we agree not to revisit this issue until at least April 16. (1)
  • Pledged delegate estimates are now taken directly from the wiki articles on individual state contests. Those articles are using official results where possible and are using the most complete carefully sourced delegate counts in other instances. These numbers should also be the same at the main results article. (1) (2) (3) (new consensus)
  • Superdelegate estimates should come from the Democratic Convention Watch blog. DCW is the only available estimate that is transparent, fully referenced, and frequently updated. (1) (2) (3) (4)

Caucuses are being discouraged because they are undemocratic.[edit]

So why does this page point out Obama’s Michigan “no votes” but not the fact Hillary lost hundreds of thousands of votes because states held undemocratic caucuses? So Hillary won the Texas popular vote…but lost the much smaller turnout caucus and Obama ended up with more delegates out of Texas than Clinton. And the notion Obama’s strategy was to focus on the Texas caucus and ignore the popular vote is absurd. Obama benefited greatly from undemocratic caucuses and when Bernie Sanders benefited from them in 2016 Democrats realized they needed to get rid of them—because caucuses are just as undemocratic as superdelegates. So Hillary won the popular vote and any discussion about Michigan should also include Texas and the fact caucuses are now seen as undemocratic. Clam chowdah (talk) 00:43, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline?[edit]

It would be great to see a timeline of how states voted. When did Obama surpass Clinton? 82.147.226.185 (talk) 06:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox[edit]

John Edwards received Delegates. Yet isn't in the Infobox. 47.20.46.230 (talk) 19:06, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]


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