Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Hillar Loses by Winning

I love the headline that Drudge has on their front page (as of 11:17pm)

http://drudgereport.com/

ALL THAT FOR TEN DELEGATES?

Clinton needed to blow out Obama in Pennsylvania and substantially cut into his pledge delegate count. Some see her 10 point margin of victory was significant. But after all that work in Pennsylvania, she wound up with a whopping...10 delegates. She lost the day by winning. even with her winning Pennsylvania, she would need to win all the remaining states by 65-70%, depending on what who is doing the calculations. Here's some calculations by MSNBC's Chuck Todd



According to Chuck Todd, they would call the delegate race for Obama like they would do for states. He said that Clinton would need to win roughly 69% of the remaining delegates. And if they split the delegates 50-50 in Indiana and North Carolina, then Clinton would then need to win 85% of the remaining delegates. 85 freaking percent.

And another great point brought up in the video. Now Clinton is trying to lie her way to claiming the popular vote lead. According to the way she counts, her votes include Florida and Michigan, which of course that's the only way of her getting the popular vote lead. But remember, both candidates agreed before the primary season that these two states would not count. Hillary was even caught on air saying that "Michigan does not count for anything." More importantly, Obama's name was not even on the ballot. In Florida, Obama did not have a chance to campaign in the state, with Clinton enjoying early name recognition.

Again, the next battleground is moved to May 6th in Indiana and North Carolina. Because of the stubbornness of the Clinton campaign and their failure to see that their campaign is indeed finished, they're going to waste more time fighting each other rather than the person they should be fighting: John McCain. More time and money being wasted. Someone please tell Hillary that she cannot win and drop out now... That's to you Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore...

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