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This is me largely keeping track of the Democratic Presidential Caucuses (or State Conventions) that were held around the country that year and who the delegates were pledged to. I can't readily organize the data myself not being a subscriber to the New York Times, and not having a copy of the Proceedings for the '32 Democratic Convention it is not always clear how many delegates have been selected by each State or Territory; I'll leave that to someone else who is. Hopefully we don't end up with any missing contests, as I'm not sure how regularly the Times reported on these. --Ariostos (talk) 17:28, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You've done a lot of great research; I applaud you for that. Here you should include the protocol, and how the votes are counted, how the electors are delegated, and how each candidate wins a state, etc. Add more to the body of how the primaries take place.
The map seems incredibly inaccurate. Additionally, the New Hampshire results are a red flag. I have come across many accounts saying that Al Smith outperformed Roosevelt in that primary, which makes me question this article's accuracy. SecretName101 (talk) 17:59, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have a source listed for New Hampshire in this case above, which was probably an oversight on my part or I was concentrating entirely on the Primaries. What I do remember thought is that quite a few of the Primary States, both New Hampshire and Massachusetts come to mind as well as New Jersey, all held their Presidential and Delegate primaries separately; the Presidential preference primary usually had no bearing on which delegates were selected to go to the National Convention. Because of this I was conflicted in these cases on whether to display the results for the Presidential Primary or the Delegate Primary, and usually I leaned towards the latter. At least that was what I was working on, I can't remember how far alone things were when I stopped. To the best of my knowledge what is displayed NOW for New Hampshire is the Presidential Preference Primary, and I think that was because I couldn't find source giving a complete set of results for the delegate primary, least those like the one in New Hampshire I put in for the 1940 Democratic Primaries.
Otherwise the map is largely accurate, I just never got back to putting in an equivalent of the 1940 Democratic Primary table into this article with the references. Minus New York that is, but that is because I could never determine what its status was. --Ariostos (talk) 01:22, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]