Thanks to Captain Chaos and his minions.
Why the hell is Hilary still in?
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and that, too, means jack.Fixed it for ya.
edit: popular vote, not counting Florida/Michigan, Iowa, Nevada, Maine or Washington - Popular Vote Total
Obama - 15,926,271 49.6%
Clinton - 15,215,367 47.3%
Obama +710,904 +2.3%
who's to say what effect that had on the (potential) voting populace after MI & FL were denied.
regardless, this isn't a clear case of voter disenfranchisement, which is problematic for hillary, but less so for the DNC as a whole.
I like to see her tout "winning" Michigan seeing how she was the only one on the ballot. It would have been funnier if she would have lost to a write in candidate Benjamin Dover.Fixed it for ya.
edit: popular vote, not counting Florida/Michigan, Iowa, Nevada, Maine or Washington - Popular Vote Total
Obama - 15,926,271 49.6%
Clinton - 15,215,367 47.3%
Obama +710,904 +2.3%
if you can't read, listen
Fixed it for ya.
edit: popular vote, not counting Florida/Michigan, Iowa, Nevada, Maine or Washington - Popular Vote Total
Obama - 15,926,271 49.6%
Clinton - 15,215,367 47.3%
Obama +710,904 +2.3%
Sorry, but you are going to have to count MI & FL in the popular count... those voters exist no matter how much Obamaites wanna push them under the bus.
obama wasnt even on the ballot in michigan. how can you possibly count those votes?
multiply hillary's by 0.8 [(1+.6)/2]
in addition to that, Hillary approved of ignoring them before the election... then they voted for her, so she changed her mind.
MI is much less Hillary's problem than it is the DNC's problem.
Still, discounting the FL & MI vote... I'd say a lead of .0025 of the popular vote isn't exactly an commanding majority. Hillary should and will stay in it.
*edit: Toss out MI and it's Obama by 416,132 votes and the 2.5% advantage shrinks less than half... at 1.2%.
she found her voice
Today's polling data:
Obama: 45.0%
Clinton: 44.9%
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html
Obama: 45.0%
Clinton: 44.9%
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html
git u sum!!!
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/07/limbaugh-comes-out-for-obama/
Limbaugh throws support to 'weaker' Obama
Rush Limbaugh, between crowing about the success and attention of his "Operation Chaos," switched sides in the Democratic primary this morning.
"I now urge the Democratic superdelegates to go publicly make your mind up for Obama," he said.
Earlier, he said, "I'm now tempted to tell superdelegates to pick Obama because I now believe he would be the weakest nominee."
Limbaugh had been urging his listeners to support Hillary as the only chance for Republican victory in November, and to extend the Democratic primary. Exit polls and anecdotes suggest that many did.
Not sure there are really a lot of dittoheads among the superdelegates, however.
Also, he took an obligatory shot at McGovern, who just called on Clinton to drop out.
"Mcgovern in his lifetime wants to see someone lose worse than he did," he said.
or at least has a penchant for calling the media on it.
obama would be another jfk: charming, yet cynical. articulate, but shallow. well-loved, but not for being presidential.
yet for all of these kinda-shortcomings, i cannot forecast a legacy for hillary. it might be one filled with totalitarianism, or it might be strikingly ordinary.
i'll give you this: either of these would be better than lurch from '04
She is like that machine that would squeeze playdough through the hole and it'd come out in the shape of heart and stars. Only she doesn't squeeze out playdough.
Hillary is still campaigning because democrats care more about their own careers than the good of the party. The reason republicans don't do this **** is because they drop out as soon as they know they're gonna lose so they can kiss the winners ass, get the vice president seat and make being republican seem less dirty than being a democrat so they can and will win. I'm voting Obama but McCain's got this in the bag.
I agree, McCain has already won the presidency.
Obama is going to be torn to shreds during the next few months.
McCain = Bush. He looks good now because no one is campaigning against him. He won't hold up to the fire once the Dems finish their catfight.
what quote?
http://www.recreate68.org/ & http://dncdisruption08.org/?cat=8
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what a charming lot coming to loopie's backyard
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what a charming lot coming to loopie's backyard
gawd, this dimocratic primary just keeps on gettin betta!!
Those people appear to be complete retards. They talk in their mantra about how it's some great moment in history to have a woman and a black man coming to the convention, and yet the goal of their group is to disrupt it.
I think the residents of Denver are not that pussified.. pretty sure that is a typical gun ownin' western state where people take defending their property & businesses deadly serious.
Seattle it aint.
Hilary hanging tough i the best thing that could happen to the GOP right now. She will singlehandedly wreck the Dems chances of taking the White House.
May as well get used to another 4 years of Republican asshatery.
C'mon Ron Paul!
May as well get used to another 4 years of Republican asshatery.
C'mon Ron Paul!
impossible, there are way too many black people in colorado.
and just as an fyi, burlington and brattleboro are really the only places in vermont that are full of ultra-liberal hippies. true vermonters can easily be mistaken for people from maine or new hampshire, with the exception that they are slightly less redneckish.