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The author of this article doesn't honestly seem to get the math. The statewide vote totals only allocate about 12 delegates, whereas most are allocated by Congressional district. Thus, Clinton may well win the statewide total and lose the delegate count or vice-versa. This who endorses whom stuff is puff and nonsense. If you really want to write an article about "the electoral math," then some actual math would have been useful.
Given that a majority of congressional districts have been allocated an even number of delegates, the fact is, whatever the likely range of vote outcomes, Clinton will get two delegates and Obama will get two. Only those rare districts, mine happens to be one, will a fifth delegate be allocated and then a slim majority of one takes the day.
A breakdown of those rare, odd number of allocated districts would have told use the electoral math. This article told us absolutely nothing useful.
