California's Democratic delegation is ready with its roll call count (Mulholland rewrites history!)

LA Times ^ | Peter Nicholas

[BurbankKarl]

So what was the final, official vote, anyway, in that race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? And how about the breakdown in the mammoth California delegation?

As of earlier today, almost a week after the much-publicized roll call vote that officially anointed Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee, party officials still had not released the convention-wide numbers. (It's an academic exercise, we know, but we're still curious about it).

The state-by-state roll call was memorably cut off by Clinton herself, when she moved to make Obama the nominee by acclamation. At the time, 32 delegations had weighed in and Obama was leading 1,549 to 341.

California had passed when its turn came up early in the roll call because, state party advisor Bob Mulholland later related, votes within the delegation were still being counted.

Today, Mulholland said the count finally had been completed and the final numbers were: Obama, 273; Clinton, 166 (remember, Clinton won the Feb. 5 California primary).

[BurbankKarl]

Hillary won in a landslide...! No wonder the PUMAs are mad. Barack 2,186,662 Hillary 2,608,184 Winner takes all!

[BurbankKarl]

I finally found the vote for the CA Dem delegation!

[norton]

"No wonder the PUMAs are mad. Barack 2,186,662 Hillary 2,608,184 "

Can you explain?
I don't see anything like these numbers in the article...
Tnx

[Drago]

Those numbers are correct. See:

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2008_primary/14_sov_summary_pages.pdf

[NonValueAdded]

Hmmmmmmm. If the interstate electoral compact that the libs are so hot about was in effect for candidate selection, Hillary would have won in a landslide. Isn't that their mantra, the winner of the popular vote takes all.

I guess libs are very easy to understand when you multiply whatever they say by -1. It is amazing how often that works.

[norton]

thanks but I don’t find those numbers at the original link.
Are these from the Primary that the original post refers to?

[lainie]

Hey, are you saying the Hildabeast wunnn the pahpuluuur vouuuute?

[BurbankKarl]

Those numbers are the final Democratic votes for California primary according to the Secretary of State.

Yet, the delegation voted for Obama according to the article. On election day in CA, we kept hearing about “every vote counting”, even when there were problems with the ballots, running out of ballots, etc.

In actuality, it should read “every vote counts....until The Party says otherwise”

[lainie]

Since it was academic (Obama being way ahead), they figured they could get away with it, so why not? But the real question is “why.”