Uh ... recount what, now?

[unixronin]

So.  NH primary, right?  McCain comes out of it on top of the Republican ticket, Hillary Clinton tops the Democratic ticket with 39% of the vote, with Barack Obama just behind her at 36% (or 37%, depending who you ask and which way they rounded the numbers).  WAAAAY behind both of'em, Dennis Kucinich is in fifth place with 1% of the vote, only fourteen hundred votes ahead of the total write-in candidates.

So now Kucinich wants a recount.

...Say WHAT?

Seriously now.  He'd have to triple his vote count just to get within reach of fourth place.  What on earth could he possibly hope to get out of a recount?

But then you dig a little further ...

In a letter dated Thursday, Kucinich said he does not expect significant changes in his vote total, but wants assurance that "100 percent of the voters had 100 percent of their votes counted."

Kucinich alluded to online reports alleging disparities around the state between hand-counted ballots, which tended to favor Sen. Barack Obama, and machine-counted ones that tended to favor Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.  He also noted the difference between pre-election polls, which indicated Obama would win, and Clinton's triumph by a 39 percent to 37 percent margin.

So wait a minute here.  Kucinich wants a recount not because he thinks he got shorted, but becuase he thinks Obama got shorted?  Are we supposed to be concluding from this that even other Democratic candidates (well, Kucinich, at least) are watching the primaries and muttering "Anyone but Clinton, anyone but Clinton"?

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[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

By the by, since NH proportions the delegates by the percent of vote received, and they have have only a small number of delegates, the delegate swing is only 1, again a good reason for Obama not to spend the energy.
FYI - Delegate count (last I heard) Obama - 25, Clinton - 24, Edwards - 18. Or why Edwards is Not Leaving the race yet. He still has some clout and some hope!