Byron York makes a strong case for comparing Hillary to the Goremeister. She may very well lead in the popular vote and still lose to the MSM’s darling little messiah. He breaks down the primary season into four quarters:
First Quarter – Popular Vote
Clinton – 1,123,3780 Obama – 975,927
Second Quarter – Popular Vote
Clinton – 8,086,836 Obama – 8,000,574
Third Quarter – Popular Vote
Clinton – 1,313,256 Obama – 2,192,813
And now were into the fourth quarter:
But Clinton has made a huge comeback in the fourth quarter. Beginning with her victories in Texas and Ohio and going through last night’s win in Kentucky, she has won 6,505,231 votes to Obama’s 5,983,422 — a margin of 521,809 votes. That number will likely grow after the remaining contests in Puerto Rico (where she has a significant lead), South Dakota, and Montana. At the moment, counting all four quarters, Obama has a popular-vote lead of 123,033 votes. By the end of the day on June 3, Clinton might well be ahead.
If that happens, she will be the Al Gore of the Democratic primaries: the winner of the popular vote who lost the election. But unlike Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential race because of the constitutional requirements of the Electoral College, Clinton will lose because of the Democratic party’s arcane — and changeable — rules of delegate allocation. For example, Clinton won Texas in the sense that most of us understand winning an election, but Obama ultimately walked away with more delegates, because of the party’s idiosyncratic allocation process.
Byron argues that in 2000 every Democrat walking the streets was angry that Gore lost even though he won the popular vote. But eight years later with the prospect of Hillary losing, even though she may win the popular vote, no one seems all too upset. Funny how that happens huh?
Why the change? It’s not clear. Certainly party elites view Obama as the fresher and more attractive candidate. But contests in which the winner of the most votes doesn’t get the prize produce lasting after-effects, and in the months ahead, Democrats may be in for more than they know.
I find it incredible that the party doesn’t understand the hole they are digging. Allowing a elitist primary rule pick a nominee that is much weaker, much more niave and inexperienced, and has questionable judgement issues to represent them is going to be their downfall I believe.
Not like I’m upset about that prospect. Quite happy about it actually. Its just funny how no one from the left questions this super delegate rule as being elitist because their chosen messiah is in front.
UPDATE
John Bolton with a wonderful quote about Obama while being interviewed by Hugh Hewitt yesterday:
HH: Do you think [Obama] had any kind of a serious vetting yet in terms of the media drilling down on things like…do you think he understands the relationship, say, between Hezbollah and Iran?
JB: I think the, we haven’t plumbed the depths of that ignorance yet, but I wouldn’t count on the mainstream media to do it during the course of the campaign. Look, he has led a very cosseted, privileged existence in his life, that this is not somebody born in poverty who was risen by his bootstraps. He’s had, basically, a fairly comfortable middle class life. He’s gone to Ivy League universities, he’s lived in a liberal bubble in Chicago. And you know, you don’t have to acquire a lot of knowledge to be acceptable in those circles, and I think what we’re seeing is, as he emerges from that bubble, we’re seeing his view of reality. And I think it’s right there for Senator McCain to go after.
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I just can’t wait until the convention in Denver. The gloves are going to come off! Both of their delegates fighting it out on the floor and hippies running rampant in the streets! America will get a real good look at: Race politics, the real anti war crowd, power hungry Dhimmicrats, and all sorts of ugly inside the Dhimmicrat Party realities.
McCain will come out the winner of the Dhimmicrat primaries!
Just finished working on some Dim Convention slogans.
These would be great on t-shirts and bumper stickers:
“Selected not Elected”
“She won the Popular Vote”
“Abolish the Electoral College Delegate System”
“Let Every Vote Count”
“I’ve Been Disenfranchised”
“Barack Stabber”
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Popcorn anyone??
The only way Obie wins is by not counting all of the votes.
Gotta love the Dims.
Aye Chihuahua additions to yours:
“Buck OFama”
“Vast Misogynist Conspiracy”
“Bamboozled By Barack”
>>I find it incredible that the party doesn’t understand the hole they are digging.>>
You know, I’m not sure they don’t plan on going to the courts if McCain wins, and trying to have the election reversed based on racism. You know – if McCain wins, it’s only because the people are racist, and therefore their votes are illegal and therefore Obama should be declared the winner, because we all know racism is illegal.
I don’t think it’s going to work.
There were some conservatives who advised advised conservatives to try to stop O’Bomber by voting for Hilarity in the primaries.
PROBLEM! She has more chance of being elected than he does, so if she wins the primary and, makes up with Obie and he becomes her V.P., … Do the math.
Yonason: It’s clear that Hillary would be the stronger candidate. Her base of popular support is much greater than Obama’s who won a nice slice of his current delegate lead in elitist caucuses in states that will vote for the GOP nominee.
I would hate to see either Hillary or Obama elected. But the purpose of “Operation Chaos” which was started by Rush Limbaugh, was to expose the fault lines in the Democrat coalition and weaken Hillary, Obama and their party.
I too was worried that Obama and Hillary would team up. It could still happen. But its’ less likely the longer Hillary continues to fight.
Obama will be the Dem nominee and the last thing he wants is to have that woman on the ticket (never mind Bill sticking his nose in the tent).
McCain is in a stronger position because of all of this. Obama has been forced to spend buckets of cash while McCain has been putting what little he has raised in the bank.
Well, they’re already putting out the “stolen election” meme.
Here’s what Andrea Mitchell had to say earlier today:
newsbusters [dot] org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/05/21/nbcs-mitchell-suggests-republicans-may-cheat-obama-november
I’m sure that the lawyers are sharpening their pens and fine tuning their dictaphones as we speak.
Mike’s America
Yes, that is what I’m hoping, as well.
I think that Operation Chaos has worked to the tee. It has hurt Obama because of Rev Wright, whch as probably leaked by a Clinonite, and Hillary still thinks she has a chance. In the end both sides of the Dems race are going to be pissed. If Obamassiah wins, Florida and Michigan voters are going to be pissed and not vote for Obama, along with the Feminists that are pissed that Obama broke up Hillary’s coronation. And if Hllary wins, the African American will be pissed because she stole the election. It is the perfect scenario for the Republicans, the Dems should win this year but will be split because of the Identity Politics that is their bread and butter.
Get the popcorn out, i tis going tobe a fun summer.
i hate to say it but i think the best way to vote is the popular vote. the vote where they all count. the electoral college is outdated. then when you look at the convoluted way the dims go about getting their nominee, they look retarded. it doesn’t make you any smarter to make it harder, it just makes you look not smart enough to make it streamlined.
If we abollished the elctoral college then New York and California would elect our president. The country in between would be powerless. That is the reason for the electoral college.
First, everyone needs to know how much of a rookie I am in this political game. To be sure my personal time is limited to the amount of truthiness involved here. And this part time interaction is the fundemental reason why I change my mind as time moves forward. Here, I find myself wondering though what actually is a hard debate of contextual bias dominated by many very sensible people on this blog. Hope you all take it as a compliment.
For me, the gift of the Internet is more than just the ability to communicate. These dialogs do give a depth and perception beyond anything Mainstream Media Hacks like Chris Mathews could ever project in honesty. Mathews in his Political Fix is something that I as an ordinary American, white, married, a Vietnam veteran, over sixty, screwed out of a pension by recessions, shut downs, and Plant moves to Mexico, endured. Now understands how I have been screwed through the decades by my own pears, worse those very educated college wonder licks, once respected however now widely recognized for their wide stance in politics. Front or rear types, Gay Foley or Straight Spitzer, it seems passion is the real eternal economic engine. As one commentary, in this blog hit the target, about the tan to creamy white citizen, a generously laughable yet real revelation, for me anyway.
Watching television, one can see much more of the light tan black types appearing so more in advertising and news. What really was striking one time a few weeks ago was a telecast by MSNBC in a discussion hosted by Brian Williams likely will never be aired again because of the racist nature. Talk about a video never to be played again but I saw it. Especially a the commentary by a women “Black Journalist” an MSNBC regular political analyst said Black/ White parenting produced pretty babies, while Black/Black parenting produced ugly babies. A very in your face racist statement.
In Chris Mathew’s case we can see the lip smacking, splattering, sputtering, spewing, and spitting discernments’ that eventually lead endlessly to innings of “Democratic Debauchery” with his Hardball analysis. Now America has an MSNBC Side Show. Imagine that for a major broadcasting company licensed on the public electromagnetic broadcasting spectrum creates a Side Show on what appears a merry go round in the happiness of Democratic hate mongering. Or the magic shows, with the illusion of a Democratic dog fight? All the while Morning Joe makes a stance on what have you learned.
But this Super delegate stuff has to be brought forward to the Convention. Here I am thinking one has to be at least thirty five years old to be President. Then here America has the so called Super Delegates that can be able to be anywhere from twenty one, or some oldie moldies that have zero background in a real life experience, here choosing our nominee? Well, why not just let Big Bird be a delegate. The irony here is all the fuss about delegates and so little of the nature of the game and who are those guy’s? Has this always been this way? Like can any Republican after voting walking into the Democratic arena raise their hand declare themselves Democratic delegate whanabe’s, hopefully not Wahabbi, when they really are unrepentant Republicans mentored by Lieberman to become Obama can’s .
All this leading to a simple Challenge that needs to be addressed is whether anyone else sees a problem with Sen. Clinton building her case for Sen. Obama’s nomination being illegitimate?
Wow, Ben Stein would be able to take the Republican Dog Food off the shelf and replace it with Clear Eyes. Yikes.
At a very minimum I think that they are going to go to the court of public opinion on the racism issue. A “human rights” investigator from the UN will be investigating racism in this country and issuing a report, which I believe is due out next year. You can be sure that large portions of it will find it’s way to the MSM around October though. I suspect the report has already been written.
U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S. from Monday
I apologize for weak sources and slim writing, running late this Friday morning. Good day all!