It’s the most wonderful time of the year, again. All one sees anymore are campaign commercials. Even from the other room we are inundated with “I’m so-and-so, and I approve this message.” In Florida, the Republican Primary Campaign has taken over, leaving little room for the idea of an Obama-won Florida, and (through recent polls) an assumed Romney win. But why does everyone care so much about the little Sunshine State? Delegates.
A delegate is simply this; a member of the pre-election Electoral College. Each state is allowed a certain number of delegates, typically corresponding to the percentage of population a particular state has in comparison to the rest of the country, and Florida holds the largest amount of delegates we’ve seen in any other caucus this year: 50, however, only in a winner-takes-all situation.