Just like the Harvard Law Review.  So many people point to Obama winning the title of Editor of the Harvard Law Review his senior year at law school there.  He was the "first Black" to win it.  But he has an even more important distinction:  Barack Obama is the ONLY Editor the Law Review has ever had who never contributed a single word of writing for the Review.

Won the highly prized/coveted subcommittee chair of European Affairs of the US Senate in his very first term and never chaired a hearing or set an adgenda or contributed anything to the Senate on European Affairs.

This is because a state's electoral college vote provides half the weight in the formula for allocating delegates -- the other half is total number of Democratic votes in the last three presidential elections.   The EC vote is completely redundant -- the larger a state is, the more democratic votes it is likely to have, so there is no need to "weigh" a state to emphasize the importance of larger states in elections.

So while Alaska is allocated 1 pledged delegate for every 17210 Democratic votes in 2004, 2000, and 1996 combined, while Massachusetts is allocated only 1 pledged delegate for every 48461 Democratic votes.

And Delaware, where there were 446,477 Democratic votes gets only 15 pledged delegates to the convention, while Idaho, with fewer Democratic votes (and thus fewer Democratic voters) get 18 pledged delegates.  The three year Democratic/GOP vote difference in Delaware was +12.1% in favor of Democrats.  In Idaho it was -32.7% in favor of the GOP.  The sole reason that Idaho Democrats are given more weight than Delaware Democrats is because Idaho has one more electoral college vote than Delaware.

(the mean is 40722 Democratic votes per delegate -- that based on the 129+ million democratic votes, divided by the 3181 pledged delegates allocated (does not include FL & MI))

I calculated what would happen to the delegate count if all democratic votes were treated equally before the IN/NC primaries, and found that Obama's lead in pledged delegate would decline by 39.

The states where the Dem/GOP 3 year vote difference is in favor of the GOP by double digits has a mean delegates/voter average that is 40% above the mean delegate/voter average for all states.  There are 18 states in this category, and in the last three presidential elections, the Democrat has won a single contest -- Clinton won Kentucky in 1996.

It's good to be reminded that it ain't over till it's over.

One thing is for sure, more people need to be made aware of how the 'creative class' cultural signals that Stoller spoke of threaten to shift the party's electoral base; not hold and expand it.  Putting all our hopes in a disaffected (which is why they need hope) youth movement is extremely unreliable.  

Here's one reason why:
http://tinyurl.com/29756q

Personally I don't want to see the Democratic party hijacked and marketed primarily to a bunch of college kids who never had to worry about politics because it didn't affect them in any way except the abstract.

We all have transportation -- cell phones -- disposable income -- the Internet -- free time

Sorry, your second paragraph is just incomprehensible incomprehension.

In other words, the results aren't really "random" at all.

I personally think that there are flaws with the methodology -- he 'mormalizes' undecided voters, when undecided voters don't distribute themselves in the same proportion as "decided voters do -- instead of "random" voter behavior, I'd start with the 'fixed' percentage of voters for each candidate, subtract the margin of error from each candidate, then do a "randomized" vote where there is a "randomized" undecided vote factor based on a logarhythic scale.

Every time Obama is attacked this summer, instead of defending him, Clinton would have to argue that that's the proof that Obama is less electable and the supers should overturn.  We'd spend months tearing down the person who would be at that moment the presumptive nominee and then have to have a ton of supers flip or have pledged delegates flip or have Michigan suddenly count with Obama getting 0 delegates or something.