CalifJim

“In politics, win is an ambiguous concept!  I imagine the definition of win that the reporters were using involved the popular vote, not the delegate count.

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This could very well be true, but the reporters should've been more specific. Since the most important issue is the delegate count, my automatic assumption is that a candidate who got more delegates in a state won it. To me something like, "after winning Texas and Ohio.." sounds like Hillary won more delegates in Ohio and in Texas, which is misleading. They should've just said, "after winning primaries in Texas and Ohio".

CalifJim

“By the way, why do you compare one candidate's first name to the other's last name.  A lot of people do that and it puzzles me.  ”

I think because people normally refer to candidates by their last names, so people refer to Barack Obama as Obama. But it doesn't work that well for Hillary Clinton because if you say Clinton people think of Bill Clinton; therefore, you would have to say Hillary Clinton. And if you already said Hillary it is already understood who you are talking about, so Clinton gets omitted.

CalifJim

“Obama and Clinton or Barack and Hillary.  ”

I am sure this is the accurate way to say it