Primarily Political IV

As an armchair observer of the political process of primaries in an all too long presidential campaign, I am always amazed at the importance granted to Iowa and New Hampshire, each state representing only one percent of the total delegates (2472). A cross section of state delegates looks like the following:
California......172
Texas.............155
Florida............99
New York.......95
Pennsylvania..71
Illinois............69
Iowa...............30
New Hampshire 23

To add spice to the mix some states are "winner take all" and others are "proportional" so stay tuned after Super Tuesday March 1st as we could have a contested GOP convention in Cleveland in July.
tjs