10:50 AM: Trolling the blogosphere, I spot Steven Taylor's always funny and insightful Toast-o-Meter's pre-Super Tuesday edition. 10:42 AM: Andrew Sullivan says that the parties rules on delegates reflect "the core traits of …

The non-winner-take-all is a good idea. But having small, even numbers of delegates per district is not so smart.

Still, in all cases, just over one third of the Dem delegates are allocated statewide proportionally. So, in that tier, even small differences in the margins are consequential. (About one delegate for every 1.25% increment of the vote in California.)

On the other hand, Republican rules–winner-take-all and, in some states such as California, same number of delegates in every district–greatly overrepresent voters who happen to have mostly Democratic neighbors, and will give the bulk of the delegates even to a candidate with either well under half the votes, or with narrow margins over the runner-up in the district or state.