The one that torques me off is Iowa. Santorum and Romney virtually tied at 24%, Ron Paul close behind at 22%. And Iowa uses proportional delegates.
But you look at all the delegate estimates from places like the AP and they routinely count Santorum and Romney with a dozen delegates each and zero for Ron Paul. And we know plenty of RP people are involved in the precinct/county/state GOP delegate process.
Unless the Iowa GOP is determined to outright steal RP's delegates, the number should be about Santorum and Romney with 9 each and Ron Paul with 6. Or all three with 8. No way RP got zero there. But that is how they report it in order to drive down Ron Paul's delegate numbers as someone who can't win.
Of course, Ron Paul can't win. But lying about it is pretty dishonest. This is collusion between the "evil libmedia" and the GOP honchos.
There are serious problems about the delegate count, even without pretending that Ron Paul has a chance at the nomination. Some of the primaries and caucuses were clearly miscounted. Some state Republican Parties fudged on the rules of whether their states were proportional or winner-take-all. It's enough to assure that the Tampa convention will probably waste at least a full day in those nasty fights that will not amuse TV audiences.
Nowadays the TV-raised generation wants stuff to run smoothly and quickly. Fights over delegates, and then maybe multiple ballots to get a nomination, can easily result in fewer viewers bothering to stick around to see the winner's big speech.