“An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day.” Is this ironic, why or why not?

Yes because you would assume the man to be lucky with him living to see 98 but as soon as he hits the lottery (one of the luckiest things that could happen to you) he dies.

Delegates: representatives who cast votes at a political party's national convention. binding: if a primary or caucus is “binding” that means the delegates won in that contest are legally bound to vote for a particular candidate at the parties national convention.a primary is a preliminary election used to determine a party's nominee for a specific office. the winner of the party's caucus, or primary, wins the party nomination for that state. then the delegates meet at their party's national party convention, which is a formal gathering of all party delegates from all states.