Tennessee Guerilla Women: Hillary's Outrageous Plot to Count Every Vote

Friday, May 23, 2008

Hillary's Outrageous Plot to Count Every Vote

The Philadelphia Inquirer editorializes that the Obama camp's increasingly shrill and hysterical calls for Hillary to drop out stem from the certain fearful knowledge that she not only leads in the most inclusive popular vote count, but she stands on the verge of capturing the popular vote in every conceivable vote count.

Let's see now, what has the Obama camp shouted from every rooftop and every media outlet in the nation? Oh yeah, the super-delegates absolutely must follow the will of the voters!!!!

Lost in the excitement of Barack Obama's coronation this week was an inconvenient fact of Tuesday's results: Hillary Clinton netted approximately 150,000 votes and is now poised to finish the primary season as the popular-vote leader. In some quaint circles, presumably, these things still matter.

To understand how razor-thin this majority is, consider that if the Puerto Rico turnout is slightly larger than we have imagined - or Clinton's margin is slightly greater - then Clinton would finish the primary process leading in every conceivable vote count. With two million voters, a 28 percent victory would put Clinton over the top even in the count, which excludes Florida and Michigan and includes estimates for Obama's caucus victories.

It is this looming prospect which explains the tremendous pressure Obama partisans and the media are putting on Clinton to drop out of the race. They want her gone now because they understand that she has an excellent chance of finishing as the undisputed people's choice.

Partisan voters almost always come home after their candidate loses. The problem arises when a candidate's supporters believe that their guy (or gal) didn't lose. Expect the chorus calling for Clinton's withdrawal to grow louder over the next week, with people insisting that she has no "path to victory."

Clinton's path is both obvious and simple: Win the popular vote and force Barack Obama and his cheerleaders to explain why that doesn't matter. -- via HillBuzz

"Just so I understand the Obama blog argument, they say that calling for counting the votes is the most vile, most outrageous, most heinous act in the history of politics. Did I get that right?"

-- Big Tent Democrat