Fifty-one percent of the more than 10,000 precinct delegates were elected because they supported Clinton. Forty-five percent were elected because they supported Obama. Nearly 4 percent were made delegates based on their support for former Sen. John Edwards.

Those delegates on Feb. 23 will go to 17 county conventions across the state, where they will elect a smaller number of delegates to the state party convention on April 19.

State convention delegates will elect 25 delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention in August in Denver.

The Obama campaign doled out the 25 delegates as if the state convention delegates were in exact proportion to the precinct delegates elected Saturday.

They may or may not be the case:

According to the delegate selection rules drafted by the Nevada Democratic Party and available on its Web site, the Obama campaign did the math correctly, but relies on the hypothetical situation of the county and state conventions all being held today and the precinct delegates voting exactly the same way, which they are not required to do. Both candidates are predicting a long campaign. If it goes all the way to the national convention, as it has not in decades, the delegate situation will be far from clear.

Hypothetical is not reality, it is a possibility based on unknown future events. The only reality is that Hillary Clinton won 51% of the vote in Nevada and Obama won 45%. Neither one received a single Nevada delegate to the national convention in Denver.

A screwy system? To be sure. But that's no reason to misrepresent the impact.