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southern_belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:01 AM
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Clinton's parallel universe
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Hillary Clinton, campaigning in Kentucky, sounds more and more like she's functioning in a parallel universe.

She said she has won based on the popular vote, if you count Michigan and Florida, which haven't counted since last year. She said she has won based on the winner-take-all Republican primary rules, which don't count because it's a Democratic primary. And, in a new twist, she says she's won in the Electoral College:

"The states that I've won total 300 electoral votes. The question is who can win 270 electoral votes? My opponent has won states totaling 217 electoral votes." Except that the Electoral College only counts after you win the nomination.

Tomorrow, Obama is expected to win enough delegates to clinch an absolute majority in pledged delegates currently certified. A number of superdelegates have said they will support whoever gets a majority of pledged delegates. So he's expected to bring in another haul of superdelegates, too.


More at http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/05/clinton_obama_tiebreaker_next.html

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