Thread: As Time Runs Short, Clinton Claims Lead in Popular Vote

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is entering the Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday with one of the most pugnacious political messages of her campaign: That she is ahead in the national popular vote when all votes are counted, including from the unsanctioned primaries in Michigan and Florida, and that party leaders who have a vote as super-delegates should reflect this level of appeal.

This argument is of a piece with Mrs. Clinton’s increasingly populist image, as a fighter on behalf of average people, but it is also a debatable claim: Most tallies of the national popular vote put Mr. Obama in the lead, especially when Michigan and Florida are not counted.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/us...nt&oref=slogin


I predicted this last week. Hillary is setting things up to challege Obama's legitimacy to the nomination because she has the popular vote.

This is one of those "we make/change the rules as we go" way of doing things with democrats. It's never been used on another democrat before so that makes this case unique.

I wonder how all this is gong to end for the DEMS. I don't see Hillary walking off and forgetting about this.

Creative math. Obama wasn't even on the ballot in MI. WTF? Is this the kind of accounting her husband used to come up with the budget surplus?

Originally Posted by Blueneck

Creative math. Obama wasn't even on the ballot in MI. WTF? Is this the kind of accounting her husband used to come up with the budget surplus?

I don't think she wants a redo, she just wants the delegates to count for her, lol. I think she knows if it's a redo she will lose in Michigan and Florida....probably.