Clinton Camp Misrepresents ABC News Report

She will spin you, and spin you. Superdelegates – beware.

I agree that the shart on ABCnews.com needs changed. You can’t count votes that are not allowed to counted. I know there is a little asterick but it is misleading. She is not ahead.

Well the shame of it is that regardless of the popular vote, which Obama still holds, she cannot win enough elected delegates now. She would have to win 80% of the remaining states and it won’t happen.
They need to get off the faulty elections held in FL and MI. They don’t count to the public nor to the supers.
She did not win by enough of a margin to count and she can’t make it up in NC or IN.
Go ahead though and send her more money LOL

Oxy, then why did he not pull his name off the ballot in Pa where she was ahead by 20. Your arguement makes no sense. She is one sneaky lady. She is a Clinton. What do you expect.

It won’t matter, she will STILL not get the nomination. Sure, give the nomination to the person that has run the wrost campaign of all – to date that is – of all campaigns ever run. Give the nomination to the person that is lacking across the board.
I’m sorry Clinton supporters but she will not win the nomination. Any votes casted for her are a waste. All you all are doing is prolonging the inevitable.
Regardless, that popular vote crap won’t work. This will be no different than any other contest. She wins, at least on the number, but he gets more Supers! Out with the old in with the new. Eat it Clinton people.

The DNC stripped MI and FL of their delegates. However, the results of the election have been certified by the Secretary of State and have vote totals for each candidate (where applicable). When you speak of the popular vote, the certified results of these states can be included. This in no way implies that their “voices” will be heard at the convention in the form of seated delegates.

Oxycon
Obama was down 20 in almost all of the states before they got to meet him…he turned the majority of those into wins (against a 15 year old single brand that the dems had and it’s well built and entrenched political machine…the clintons…even though only one is running…but most people don’t get that lol)
Obama did not take his name off of states because of anything besides trying to support the party.
Clinton only supports the party when it suits her.

Since there is no popular vote for caucus states, this is a mute point.
Obama ’08

do you all realize that all of your arguments against Obama have nothing to do with his ability to lead on these issues… (oh besides racism and unpatriotic stuff…haha)
while we as Obama elitists lol are either defending all these statements that are subjective at best…or saying look at what our caniddate will do to the country and the world…look at what he has already done…and look at what your candidate has done…
Bill Clinton said it best… you have a choice…hope or fear. Choose hope. God knows look where fear got ya last time.

I thought only the delegates were stripped from Florida and Michigan, not the popular vote. If the popular is not counted either, then what was the point in voting at all?

Oh – even if they did ‘misrepresent’ the ABC report … who cares? Fair play given how often the MSM misrepresents everything else spoken by anyone else. Don’t hold people to standards you can’t live by – it just reeks of hypocrisy.

Question for Obama supporters.
How many state did Obama win which are historically Democratic states in the GE?
How many swing states did Obama win that will decide the final outcome of the GE?
Does winning the states that will surely go to the Republican party in the GE mean anything?

LOOK IT’S LIKE THIS,TO USE SPORTS AS AN EXAMPLE.IT’S LIKE OBAMA HAS A TWO GAME LEAD WITH ONE GAME REMAINING.HILLARY BEATS OBAMA BY 10 PTS.WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE.BUT NOW HILLARY’S BACKERS ARE SAYING BUT WE WON BOTH PRESEASON GAMES.SO THEY SHOULD COUNT.

You can always expect Hillary and BJ Clinton to lie it’s what they do best.
Just look at:
1) Bosnia sniper fire
2) “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”

Go Away, Hillary! Please…Go away!
Hillary, if u go away, i swear i’ll pay off your campaign debt. How about it?

The Clinton camp is lying, AGAIN. Is anyone surprised?

This is exactly why many of us, including myself, were upset with the posting last night.
Mr. Klein, to his credit, clarified later (even stating it was the Clinton position). However, it looks like reality does not exist within their campaign.

What really happened with Vince Foster?
Why did he die?
Who killed him?

Just for the record, I would like to point out, that if the primary season were carried out like the general election,(which I believe it should be) in the electoral college Clinton would now have 230 electoral votes. If you count Florida she jumps to 257. Count Michigan and she goes over the 270 marker to win with 274. This is not counting any states she may pick up in future primaries. And it also credits Obama’s caucus victories as primaries, which is very generous.

Well it clearly states on your politics page that Clinton is leading the popular vote count.
That is the certified vote count acording to all the Secretaries of State.
Just because the delegates have been sanctioned doesn’t mean the Secretaries of State vote count should be ignored.
Obama chose not to have his name on the ballot in MI. His choice, for political reasons.

Hillary just seems evil to me. I think it’s the cackle.
She cackled when responding to questions on Iran.
She wants nuclear war with Iran.

Rogue states. That’s hillarious JAke.
Florida and Michigan aren’t Lybia and North Korea.
Rogue states, hardly. Florida voted what 3 days early and a win in Florida would have put a democrat inthe white house for the last eight years.
Yeah is that wording being fed straight from the Obama campaign. Rogue states.
Absolutely ridiculous!

the votes are certified by state board of elections. They are what they are.

IT’S TIME AMERICA:
It’s time for everyone to face the truth. Barack Obama has no real chance of winning the national election in November at this time. His crushing defeat in Pennsylvania makes that fact crystal clear. His best, and only real chance of winning in November is on a ticket with Hillary Clinton as her VP.
Hillary Clinton seemed almost somber at her victory speech. As if part of her was hoping Obama could have defeated her. And proved he had some chance of winning against the republican attack machine, and their unlimited money, and resources. In all honesty. I felt some of that too.
But it is absolutely essential that the democrats take back the Whitehouse in November. America, and the American people are in a very desperate condition now. And the whole World has been doing all that they can to help keep us propped up.
Hillary Clinton say’s that the heat, and decisions in the Whitehouse are much tougher than the ones on the campaign trail. But I think Mr. Obama faces a test of whether he has what it takes to be a commander and chief by facing the difficult facts, and the truth before him. And by doing what is best for the American people by dropping out of the race, and offering his whole hearted assistance to Hillary Clinton to help her take back the Whitehouse for the American people, and the World.
Mr. Obama is a great speaker. And I am confident he can explain to the American people the need, and wisdom of such a personal sacrifice for them. It should be clear to everyone by now that Hillary Clinton is fighting her heart out for the American people. She has known for a long time that Mr. Obama can not win this November. You have to remember that the Clinton’s have won the Whitehouse twice before. They know what it takes.
If Mr. Obama fails his test of commander and chief we can only hope that Hillary Clinton can continue her heroic fight for the American people. And that she prevails. She will need all the continual support and help we can give her. She may fight like a superhuman. But she is only human.
Sincerely
Jacksmith… Working Class :-)

Also, several of the caucus states are not counted in the popular vote tally–states Obama won. Something probably worth mentioning here, don’t you think?

FoxNews and ABC are in bed with Hillary the Bosnian General, you have to pay a price for that. It is stupid to even talk about the vote in Fl and MI, because nobody on earth will buy that crap, so you are trying to bring that in discussions, but if applied it will just be a cheat on the winner. If democarts will accept that then McNasty is the prez. God bless America and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.

Yeah challenging States rights will be a great platform for the Democrats in the fall.
Secretaries of State decide what votes are valid and certified.
If the DNC wants to challenge States rights I’m sure the Republicans will be more than happy to take them up on the offer.
The votes haven’t been sanctioned just the delegates and probably not even the super delegates.
ABC news made the call to post the vote as certified, quite some time ago.
It was and is the correct choice.

GLORIA – the DNC rules allow the MI/FL and others to petition the credentials committee to seat their delegates for voting on the nomination … it’s in the rules. Why shouldn’t HRC/supporters take it all the way, when the rules are set up to allow it? THat would be like saying no need to play the 4th qtr, we’ll take our loss in the 3rd.

The US Constitution is very clear on States Rights.
Obama as a constitutional lawyer should know that.
Which is why his 50/50 proposal is a total red herring. The DNC can’t over ride States rights. They can sanction the delegates as certified by the States or not.
They can’t arbitrarily make up new delegate counts or new vote counts.
That’s the US constitution and that’s why the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Bush against Gore. The Florida Secretary of State had certified Bush as the winnner. Not a darn thing anyone else can do about it. Not the Supreme Court and not the DNC.
The votes from MI and FL stand unless there is another vote.

Gotta love the term “rogue states”. The breakaway republics of Florida and Michigan! However, the bottom line as others have stated here is that the winner needs 2025 delegates. Under the bizarre system set up by the Dem Party, which I believe hurts both candidates, neither candidate will have the necessary delegates after the primaries are concluded so they will both be in the same boat. The rules do not state that the one with the most delegates wins; it states that the one with 2025 delegates wins. In the old days, there were many conventions that went to multiple ballots before someone emerged with a majority of the delegates. Not infrequently, the one with the most delegates on the first ballot did not prevail. It’s not pretty and we haven’t seen it in a while, but it’s democracy.

Yeah the rogue states of Florida and Michigan might try to invade their neighboring states.
What will we do about those delegates then if MI and Fl take over another states delegation.
To arms to arms. MI and FL are pissed off!
Yeah Rogue states.

Hillary said she wants to give an umbrella of protection to Arab dictatorships to countries like Saudi Arabia.
Why? Is it because Saudi sheiks funded the Clinton foundation and library?
The same Saudi sheiks who funded Al Qaeda and 9/11

Current total votes from abcnews.com
Clinton 1585 15,013,846
Obama 1716 14,900,819
PA PUTS CLINTON BACK ON TOP
clinton takes over nationwide popular vote numbers in Pennsylvania and wins nomination.
FLORIDA and PENNSYLVANIA are identical demographically speaking.
Who is more likely to win FL and all the other big states? That should be the dem nom.
Barack will be painted quite easily as less than american – wright, rezco, ayers, dohrn, farrakhan, HAMAS in the church bulletin, and the list goes on…
the draft dodging darth cheney and bush swiftboated a congressional medal of honor winning john kerry,,,
the rovian dirty tricks bag is limitless and they can’t kill hillary — her ideas wont die.
Hillary got tough questions for 16 months as the front runner, now obama cant handle the heat unless its from the end of his pipe or cigarette.
no smoking in the whitehouse
and yes … he admitted smoking CRack in his youth…. if hillary did, she would be gone a long time ago…. Hillary fired her campaign manager in NHampshire for talking about it…. though ..the republicans are going to grind him ito soup meat, if he wins … a vote for barack is a vote for mccain.now u can’t win in November WHEN IT COUNTS THE MOST
with out FLORIDA
and PENNSYLVANIA

Everybody was saying she needn’t rethink the campaign if she did not hit 10% margin over Obama. I don’t know why it is reported that she won by 10%. Any reasonable rounding puts her win a 9%. I’m not saying that is not a “win” but it is not the margin that most pundits said was needed. This is my first real sense that we have a news system project in the movie Network. News is manufactured to generate interest and then it is forgotten if it won’t keep the interest up. Amazing!

HP Boston: This is why women will not be as upset as African Americans will. It’s simple. You cannot dispute these two statements:
As it stands now, if Obama wins, he will have won more pledged delegates, more states and more voters, according to the rules they both agreed to follow.
As it stands now, if Hillary wins, she will have won fewer states, fewer delegates and fewer voters, according to the rules they both agreed to follow.
That is how they’ll look at it and why there will be a different reaction. Put aside who you want to win for a second. Put aside hating Obama or Hillary. Put aside campaign talking points and look at this logically about what overruling pledged delegates and popular vote according to the rules, will do to African American turnout in this and future elections. First viable black man is ahead. White woman takes it away from him, even though both followed the rules.
Think logically and forget the rest. How do you think African Americans should react to that?

The stupid women voted for her the think because she is a woman )I use that word carefully) that she is capable of running this country.They are WRONGGGGGGGGGG For god sakes wake up.Time for a woman I am a woman and if she was the one I would vote for her but she isn’t…Misspoke again??????????

Popular vote myths:
>Not in the by laws of the DNC for nominee recognition
>Caucuses cannot accurately reflect the popular vote
>Not all primaries are created equal, i.e. Open primaries, Closed primaries, hybrid primaries (Texas), Caucuses…how on any measure can this be reflective of a popular vote contest?
>Rules are set forth and cannot be changed in the middle of the contest

s.b. we will do better than that we will not vote for him.

This was over after Texas/Ohio. Again, delegates elect the nominees, and she has absolutely NO chance of catching Obama in the pledged delegates. The Super Delegates have stated again and again and again that they will not overturn this result, so this process is mathematically over. In fact, look for the Super Delegates to start moving even faster toward Obama (1 more Edwards backers did so this morning, with reports that 3 more are on the way).

I guess I am really confused at why it is so difficult for these super delegates to make their decision? Hillary took all of the large states and also most of the purple states needed to win the general. She has beat Obama by substantial numbers in places like PA, OH, MA, FL and she also could possibly take AR a state that has typically gone to the republicans. She carries the democratic base, a base that shows strong support and one that shows up at the polls. Obama can claim he has won more states but they are red states and he is already loosing ground with independent voters, the one group he said he could carry better than Clinton when going against Mccain.
If the democrats want a win in November, the clear choice is Hillary. Not to mention the fact that she will be able to unify the party by offering Obama the VP, something he is unwilling to do (so much for his ability to unite people!) He is too invested in himself to see that he would need to do the same (offer the VP to Clinton) to help bring in her supporters if he were to get the nomination, but it seems he is just to arrogant and bullheaded to do that.

What is the purpose of posting the popular vote from Florida and Michigan? The states do not count and it simply inflames the situation by having them dangled out there. Neither contest was sanctioned. What about all the people who stayed home and did not vote because they were told it did not count?

WAIT! You’re saying Hillary Clinton LIED?
I’m SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you!

Why is Hillary’s campaign broke?
Why can’t she manage money?
Why won’t Hillary pay her vendors?
Why does Hillary have so much debt?

This is purely a Democratic party matter for the DNC to rule on, which they already did by stripping Michigan and Florida of their delegates.
For Hillary’s campaign to insist that an invalid election be counted as is shows contempt for the basic principle of following rules.
This is not a matter of states rights, but rather Democratic party rules.
The rules can be changed for the next election cycle, but not in the middle of the process.
For what it’s worth, I thought the 50-50 suggestion was silly. But not nearly as bad as demanding an invalid election be counted as is.
And for the record, no one mentioned “rogue states”. I mentioned “rogue primaries” as per Jake’s (accurate) description in this blog posting.

The news pundits come down on Sen. Obama for ‘playing nice’ and then when he decides to get a ‘bit tougher’ – they all cry foul. You can’t have it both ways! I’m all for Sen. Obama getting down in the trenches and finally ‘whooping her arse’ and getting this thing over with once and for all.

Jake,
You are too invested in being “right.” I read the same section of the ABC blog last night that Clinton camp was relying upon. Perhaps they read it in the morning, not last night. What is all the fuss about? I think it is a stretch to have your lead be that Clinton camp “misrepresented” ABC. While the inclusion of FL and MI may not be allowed for delegate count by the DNC, it is fair to include FL and MI in the popular vote because people there did vote. Obama and Edwards decided to take their names off the ballot in MI. They did not have to. I read an article that unequivocally stated both Obama and Edwards were trying to curry favor from the DNC and so decided to withdraw their names. Neither were favored to win there at all and they had nothing to loose and everything to be gained. It was strategic. Also, remember that Obama sent surrogates around in MI to tell his people to show up and vote uncommitted. Note, Obama and Edwards’ names were included in FL’s ballot and FL had a record turnout for the primaries.
Jake, look into Obama strategy re: MI and DNC.

The “popular vote” argument is specious at best, and deliberately misleading at worst – and unfortunately, the mainstream media are increasingly ‘buying’ this false pretense spun by the Clinton campaign, and ‘selling’ it to the public in turn.
The truth is that there is no measure of the ‘popular vote’ during this Democratic primary season that is based on actual fact.
There has been no measure of the ‘popular vote’ in states that have used a caucus based delegate system – states which have gone, conveniently for the Clinton campaign’s ‘popular vote’ premise, overwhelmingly for Obama. Attempting to extrapolate a guess of what any popular vote tally might have been from caucus states based on guesstimates of what the turnout might have been if caucus states had been ‘primary’ states, based on caucus results, polls, or other estimates, are no more than educated guesses at best; as there were no official and certified measures of ‘popular vote’ in these states, the argument begins to fall flat, as it is based on a false premise to begin with – and even if there were a real measure of ‘popular vote’ in these states, the fact is that these states went for Obama, not Clinton, further undermining the specious ‘popular vote’ argument.
The Clinton campaign also counts the disqualified contests in Michigan (where Obama and other primary candidates were not even on the ballot) and Florida (where candidates promised not to campaign, but Clinton made a fundraising appearance anyway, and the DNC ruled that an Obama television commercial would still be allowed to run, as it was a national ad buy on cable television, and was not specifically targeted at Florida viewers), towards this imaginary ‘popular vote’ tally. As we have seen in previous contests, voters have consistently moved toward Obama as they gain familiarity with the candidates. Without the candidates having campaigned in Michigan and Florida, we’ll never know how real, sanctioned campaigns in these states would have turned out, and how voters becoming familiar with Barack Obama would have offset their familiarity with Hillary Clinton, which, given the early contests, was largely based on her almost universal name recognition as a former first lady, compared to the other primary candidates. While it is necessary that the delegations from Florida and Michigan be seated at the national convention (and there should be no doubt that they will, once all is said and done, contrary to the false claims of ‘disenfranchisement’ by the Clinton campaign), it is a false argument to claim ‘popular vote’ totals from Florida (where voters did not have the chance to fairly compare the candidates) or Michigan (where most of the primary candidates did not even have their names on the ballot) toward an imaginary ‘popular vote’ tally.
Some states voted using a ‘caucus’ method, while those that voted using a ‘primary’ method did so in a variety of ways. In some ‘primary’ states, only registered Democrats were allowed to vote; in others, registered Democrats and Independents; in still others, there were ‘open’ primaries where voters of any party – Democrat, Republican, Independent, Green, or other – were allowed to participate. Even within the subset of states that used a ‘primary’ process, the results can’t be directly compared.
Yet the Clinton campaign – and increasingly, reporters, commentators, and pundits of the mainstream media – have increasingly turned to this false narrative, or arguing that states that Clinton has won are the only ‘states that matter’ – a self-serving fallacy that bolsters the Clinton campaign’s increasingly desperate arguments to superdelegates to overturn the will of the voters by changing the rules of the game as the clock runs out, and serves the mainstream media’s desire to boost their ratings increase advertising revenue by playing up the ‘drama’ of a continued primary campaign – the mainstream media’s financial interests lie in a ‘close contest’, at the expense of real reporting of actual facts to the American public, and at the expense of their duty as journalists to serve in the public interest.

Obama took his name off MI because he knew MI was Hillary’s state. Why didn’t he take his name off FL?
Obama is a great speaker. That is why he was so persuasive among the voters who had chances to listen to him. But he did poorly against Hillary in debates. Doesn’t that tell something?
We are choosing a manager not a speaker of our country. America is in too devastating to wait for someone to be ready. For someone who calling the blacks to boycott, don’t forget who will suffer most if McCain elected.

By the way, the DNC never said Michigan and Florida couldnt have their primary or vote. They allowed both. They wouldnt allow the DELEGATES. The popular vote is fair game. Clinton can give Obama the uncommited vote in Michigan and add it up that way.

Nor surprising Team Clinton sounds a bit dizzy – all that spinning will do it to you every time.

Why am I even reading blogs today?
Why does it burn me everytime I see Hillary and Bill spin, lie, cheat, and steal? Tell me, why?
Also, why don’t people get it about Fla. and Mi.? Those votes don’t count because those votes are like “illegal” votes. Hillary and all the Democratic candidates AGREED TO ELIMINATE FLA. AND MI. VOTES IF THEY CHANED THEIR PRIMARY DATES! The states broke the rules, their votes weren’t ever to be counted, that is why only Hillary’s name is on the ballot in Mi. She was thinking about cheating from the get. The other honest candidates did WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO! This is the last time I am explaining this to you deaf, dumb and blind Clinton supporters.

Gosh Jack feeling used by the Clinton spin morons? That’s how many of us feel when you misrepresent the news to us concerning this race…and you have. You know it and so do we.
YOU and others have encouraged this idiocy to continue when you know as well as any one with a brain knows, Clinton cannot win the delegate race(which is how this is won) nor can she win the popular vote even if they included the faulty votes from MI and FL. She cannot win more states. She’s lost and the only thing keeping her alive? and killing the democratic party? Other than Motel 6 Bill and nut job Hillary? IS THE MEDIA and that includes YOU so don’t come here now crying about how mean old 3 million dollar a year Wolfson and 6 million dollar a year Harrold the Ick have mis represented YOU.
Oh and good luck getting the Democratic nominee Obama to give ABC any kind of interview when the day comes LOL

tomdavie:
Heck, if you guys insist on counting the Michigan vote, I’d take the deal that Obama gets the uncommitted. We can even seat the delegation that way. With a 55-45 split, it still won’t help her, and it puts Senator Obama back in the popular vote lead!
Thanks!
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!

TO TEXAS VOTER
===============
DELEGATES ONLY MATTERS FOR THE NOMINATION-NOTHING ELSE.
ELECTABILITY IN NOVEMBER IS THE KEY
ISSUE.
…AND WHO’S ELECTABLE IN NOVEMBER????
I LET YOU DECIDE……
REMEMBER OBAMA LOST ALL THE BIG STATES.

Chipo:
So you again would re-write the rules to provide you with an “excuse” to not vote for Senator Obama who has earned his place in the lead???
Some fairness!!!
No Thanks. We’ll skip your vote.
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!

Jackt51: And say hello to President McCain. You cannot disenfranchise millions of voters and expect to win. You lose either way. Now how is that goingto help our country?

I made a mistake with my addition but still right on outcome that Obama has lead, except with adding Michigan if you do not add uncommitted to Obama from Michigan then Clinton would be in lead, but add uncommitted to Obama and he has popular vote by over 100,000

The “popular vote” argument is specious at best, and deliberately misleading at worst – and unfortunately, the mainstream media are increasingly ‘buying’ this false pretense spun by the Clinton campaign, and ‘selling’ it to the public in turn.
The truth is that there is no measure of the ‘popular vote’ during this Democratic primary season that is based on actual fact.
There has been no measure of the ‘popular vote’ in states that have used a caucus based delegate system – states which have gone, conveniently for the Clinton campaign’s ‘popular vote’ premise, overwhelmingly for Obama. Attempting to extrapolate a guess of what any popular vote tally might have been from caucus states based on guesstimates of what the turnout might have been if caucus states had been ‘primary’ states, based on caucus results, polls, or other estimates, are no more than educated guesses at best; as there were no official and certified measures of ‘popular vote’ in these states, the argument begins to fall flat, as it is based on a false premise to begin with – and even if there were a real measure of ‘popular vote’ in these states, the fact is that these states went for Obama, not Clinton, further undermining the specious ‘popular vote’ argument.
The Clinton campaign also counts the disqualified contests in Michigan (where Obama and other primary candidates were not even on the ballot) and Florida (where candidates promised not to campaign, but Clinton made a fundraising appearance anyway, and the DNC ruled that an Obama television commercial would still be allowed to run, as it was a national ad buy on cable television, and was not specifically targeted at Florida viewers), towards this imaginary ‘popular vote’ tally. As we have seen in previous contests, voters have consistently moved toward Obama as they gain familiarity with the candidates. Without the candidates having campaigned in Michigan and Florida, we’ll never know how real, sanctioned campaigns in these states would have turned out, and how voters becoming familiar with Barack Obama would have offset their familiarity with Hillary Clinton, which, given the early contests, was largely based on her almost universal name recognition as a former first lady, compared to the other primary candidates. While it is necessary that the delegations from Florida and Michigan be seated at the national convention (and there should be no doubt that they will, once all is said and done, contrary to the false claims of ‘disenfranchisement’ by the Clinton campaign), it is a false argument to claim ‘popular vote’ totals from Florida (where voters did not have the chance to fairly compare the candidates) or Michigan (where most of the primary candidates did not even have their names on the ballot) toward an imaginary ‘popular vote’ tally.
Some states voted using a ‘caucus’ method, while those that voted using a ‘primary’ method did so in a variety of ways. In some ‘primary’ states, only registered Democrats were allowed to vote; in others, registered Democrats and Independents; in still others, there were ‘open’ primaries where voters of any party – Democrat, Republican, Independent, Green, or other – were allowed to participate. Even within the subset of states that used a ‘primary’ process, the results can’t be directly compared.
Yet the Clinton campaign – and increasingly, reporters, commentators, and pundits of the mainstream media – have increasingly turned to this false narrative, or arguing that states that Clinton has won are the only ‘states that matter’ – a self-serving fallacy that bolsters the Clinton campaign’s increasingly desperate arguments to superdelegates to overturn the will of the voters by changing the rules of the game as the clock runs out, and serves the mainstream media’s desire to boost their ratings increase advertising revenue by playing up the ‘drama’ of a continued primary campaign – the mainstream media’s financial interests lie in a ‘close contest’, at the expense of real reporting of actual facts to the American public, and at the expense of their duty as journalists to serve in the public interest.

This is a sad day in the US. Someone needs to step in and get her out of here. I don’t think she would know the truth if it slapped her. I’ll be relocating if she becomes president. We just had 8 years of lying. Oh, and 8 years before that if you count her husband. I can’t possibly take any more.

Liar! Liar!
Her pantsuit’s on fire!
OBAMA/WEBB ’08 & ’12

thank you abc for clearing this up. i still believe that ALL the votes must count and that the state officials not the voters should be held accountable.

Bon voyage, Samantha!

I’m not sure if anybody is including Washington State. They had a “beauty contest” primary on February 19th, in addition to the caucuses. Obama won the “beauty contest” primary vote by 36,015 votes.
Ain’t much, but as long as we’re counting….

African Americans in Congress and everywhere should consider boycotting the elections because it is clear that there we live in unbalance society. Its time we take things back to the 60′s. Its time for a civil rights movement.

Why are you surprised? ABC is the only network that even includes a popular count with the mi & fl count included. This is a delegate race, their delegates were not seated, their votes are not valid.
If you wanted to include votes from places that the candidates we not allowed to campaign, you should have just called Clinton & Guiliani the winners last November as they were 20 points ahead in the polls before the campaigning started>
Stop the Drama, VOTE OBAMA!

Betty,
That is sad really that it might come to this. I hope it does not. I am Italian American. I was highly offended by Rev. Wright and his slurs and condemnations of the Italians. There are 26 Millions Italian American voters in this country. Most are Democrats. The Sons of Italy published a letter denouncing Rev. Wright’s comments and requesting that each of the three presidential candidates denounce Rev. Wright. I have posted the letter here which traces the history of discrimination and lynchings of Italians in this country. Each time I posted it Jake would delete it.
I do feel for Black voters. This is a terrible debacle. At all times it was a recipe for disaster and I do think Kennedy, Kerry, Daschle, Pelosi, Dean, Dodd, Biden, Richardson, and on and on knew that. First Woman pres. candidate vs. First Black pres. You do not have to be a political scientist to predict the problems. Then factor in that their positions are so similar.

Hey Betty,
I am with you, I am so with you (with tears in my eyes)! You got my boycott even though I had no plans to vote for another white person if the nomination is stolen but that buzzard Hillary! LET THE BOYCOTT BEGIN!!!

Past
Yes if your for real. Help spread the word around all the blogs about African American boycotting the elections.

and
sj if Hillary doesn’t keep beating up the only chance at pulling out of a war and fixing the economy this point… yes we may lose
but right now Obama can beat him without half of the Hillary supporters just look at the turnovers in states and new voters… Look at the people participating in primaries… Obama’s numbers are the same as all of the republicans in many states… and in some states where he blew Hillary out of the water…yes even with all the trashing he can pick up some.
This 50 50 split with low ceilings of approval and high veracious loyalty is what keeps us going down the tubes.
her argument about big states is a nonstarter…it is false. The difference between he and she can’t be equated with such small margins to translate in any way to the general.
here in PA…the oldest state with this many conservatives and older (50+) white women (who I may add are 4 times the number of African Americans that voted…but I don’t hear any Hillary supporters saying it is only because she is a woman.) With rendell two DNC chaiors running all over the state daily…and the entire political system behind her including the state dem committee… The best she could do was a 10 point win?
You forget that 3 weeks ago everyone said she had to win by 15 minimum but then you all spin it down to 10 being good for her…what a joke…if the results aren’t what you like spin them.
This woman has been the only brand for most of the dem party for 15 years.

OK…. Superdelegates, this blog pretty much sums up the race.. Will you please cast your votes NOW…

I am an african american female supporter of Sen. Clinton.
The black leaders and black talk radio stations have done the african american
aa community a disservice.
If the media had vetted obama early on we could have know more about him. if we had know what we know about him now he would not be in the lead.
the black radio stations encouraged the black people to go and vote for the brother-and don’t say anything to cause him any trouble.
a lot of the black working class people are not voting their interest.
sen. clinton’ healthcare bill is tailor made for the working people.
obama leaving 13mil out and giving adults a choice of paying into the healthcare plan will not get us universal health.
sen. clintons affordable college plan
will lift so so many of my black brother and sister’ children out of poverty.
the thing for me as a black woman is
if I help obama get into the white house that will help obama
but if I vote for sen. clinton that will help me and mine.
and that is all I want.
obama is to far to the left to win the ge.
and if anyone remember what housing and the economy was like (I do, I am 53)
the majority of black people do not want that-
that would suit obama and his handlers just fine-but it will not lift anyone up-.
no one wants to go backwards.
the only place the masses of black people and working people in general
want to be marching to is JOBS and better life for family.
a black vote for obama helps obama
a black vote for sen. clinton helps the black voter.
Obama is not the one.
to my black brothers and sister
vote you economic interest
vote for Sen. Clinton

Hillary not a fighter this country is just racist. A black men has to go above and beyond to become President. Hillary is a women but she is a white women even during the 60′s they could sit at table with oher white people and eat whiles black couldn’t. Hillary still has advantage over white votes. Hell she’s not a fighter. This country is just still racist.

On November 4 there will be no super delegates, no caucuses, no national popular vote; winner takes all in virtually every state. Florida and Michigan will have their electoral votes fully intact. Unless the democrats arrange full primaries in both Florida and Michigan, their nominee will not have full legitimacy and John McCain can start picking his cabinet now.

Betty you letter seems to be written to try and force whites to vote for Obama. In the same manner that you are saying blacks have a right to vote for a black candidate, it is the same way whites have the right to vote for a white candidate for their choice as president.
You say the system is unfair, unfair in what manner are white not voting for Obama, also the polls are clearly showing that the majority of blacks are not voting for Hillary, so should white be now calling for a boycott because too many blacks are voting for Obama?

African Americans should boycott the election and lets see where this country will go. I guarantee things will turn around quick.
A civil rights movement is coming. And those who think that African American don’t have any power like the past well think again.

betty,
I agree that a black person has to be twice as good to get half as far as a white person in this country.
but here is the deal
obama is not half as smart as sen. clinton.
she runs circles around him and mccain on the issues that face us today.
if sen. obama were half as smart as sen. clinton-I would give him my vote just to help his chances. because I too
would love to see a person of color as president before I die.
but he is not the one.
we have many aa politician coming up in the ranks that are more qualified that obama.
I hope black people will think about this and vote their interest-obama did not attend the state of the black union
to try to find out about the issues that concern black people-every since
this program has been going on the presidental candidates have appeared there-until obama-
just because his skin is brown does not (and should not) mean black people will get any special treatment from him
(and they should not-he should be the president of all people)
and therefore he should have been vetted just like any other candidate.
and he has not been.
black people should think about this and vote their economic interest.
that would be a vote for Sen. clinton

White candidate has been elected for over a hundred years. .Never a black candidate for President. Why because most whites will not vote for a black men. I’m glad that African Americans is taking a stand and voting for Obama. Its time we stood up and not feel we have to go the white way. But we need to do more we need a civil rights movement.Because if we let them get away with doing this to Obama they will do it again and again. And Hispanic please wake because you guys will get the same treatment. Why do you think Bill Richardson endorsed Obama.

Your listening. Trust me blogs do get around..I’m going to try to run a ad in the NEW YORK TIMES. Its time African Americans
started a civils rights movement..
No OBAMA NO VOTE

Betty so what do you say about all the AA that are supporting Hillary and going all over the place with her? It would be interesting to hear your views on that one

Betty you are losing me, Obama is getting white votes, he is getting white endowments so what situation are you speaking about??

Hillary can only win unless she steals or takes it from OBAMA AND YOU WILL SEE A BOYCOTT LIKE NEVER BEFORE

I really don’t care how you view it. White people have had the upper hand for years and still do. So yes there are alot of white voting for Obama because they see him as the best candidate and they know of the mistreatment of African Americans in this country. They want to see real change. So say what you want, but racism is a fact in this country. Its the underling issue that Republican use and Hillary. Its the underlining issue of the race for the White House and boycotting will send a clear message..We not going to let the white racism stop our first black president.

black people will not get the upper hand by electing obama
I suggest you go back and try and vote your intrest by voting for sen. clinton.
the only way black people will get anything of worth is to earn it.
sen. obama should not be given the nomination just because he is black
he needs to go back to chicago and work some more for the people of ill.

Jane
I’m not hurting Obama I want a boycott because in the end there will be another Obama or hispanic running for President who will get treated the same way. Who whites will find any reason to not elect them not because they are not qualified, but because of RACE.

Betty–That is what I wondered too. Bill Clinton was thought to be the first black president and he was called racial now.

Thats the problem no black men can be qualified enough. There will always be something always be issue brought up by white people always..so now we boycott.
Its going to be the 60′s all over again

THIS IS THE SORT OF MISCACULATION THAT REMINDS JUST WHY I WILLN’T BE VOTEING FOR HILLARY CLINTON , DECEPSTION AND LIES

Jane read his post again if its still there..He did call Obama racist.

Don’t forget Hillary. As a female, you should know better how hard this world treats woman.

Look the media talks about how Hillary is a fighter and so on, but the truth of all of this is that this country is still very racist.
A black man can’t just go in and be President no not like a white man. No he has to jump over hoops and spin around .. and bounce and everything else..

William ayers has nothing to do with Obama just another reason not to vote for a black man..
Unbelievable.

The Washington Post reports today that Terry McAuliffe, after hearing CNN’s poll results, ran over to Fox News immediately to announce Clinton a winner. Is Faux News the new Clinton cable channel as well as Senator Obama’s opponent, John McCain’s? McAuliffe kept stressing how they are counting Florida. Did I miss something? Didn’t the Clintons agree to the rules of the DNC as the other candidates did? Does this mean that the Clintons get to make the rules as we go along? The Clintons have overturned every smidgen of what I believe the Democratic Party should be about. Was John Stewart right that HRC will still be running when Obama is sworn in? Talk about Washington corrupting people! I think Bill and Hillary are the perfect example.

Betty
Keep dreaming just like OBAMA !

A boycott would send a strong message.
Look not everyone would want to boycott, but African Americans who have the resources I feel should make it clear we are not going to stand for racism anymore.
take it or leave it.
I WILL CONT TO PURSUE THIS PROCESS

Betty,
I don’t like Obama as our next president. I don’t think it is racism. Hillary Clinton speaks to my issues. She has the best plan to stem the housing/foreclosure crisis. She has the best plan for educational loans and loan forgiveness through public interest service. She has the best plan for health care as it includes everyone, even working class people. She has the tenacity, strength and intelligence that I look for in a leader.

The sad thing is the media eats it up. How about giving the truth about how well he has really done
He is fighting a 1 vs 5 fight
He is fighting Sen Clinton, Sen McCain, Pres Clinton, the entire republician party and MSM
Seriously think about it. He should of out of this race a long time ago and he is BEATING HER

If “polls” were taken over the weekend showing that people regretted voting for Obama, why are his national polling numbers (~10%) greater than his national vote lead (~1 – 3%)? Doesn’t that indicate that more people regret voting for Hillary?

Of course the Clintons have problems with facts. What’s new about that?

no worries betty…whats that saying..
“you dont miss a good thing till its gone?” People fail to realize, Blacks are not going to vote for a Clinton-ever again. We gave them 80-90% of our vote in 92-96…one one owes the Clintons anything-especially after how they have run this campaign.

“Nor does anybody talk about how Obama has between around 51% of the total vote yet has around 56 to 57% of the delegate count. Why is that fair?”
It’s not fair in the concept of straight voting but is fair in a system designed to address differences in demography and regional proportion. It is also not fair to imply that it is somehow Obama’s fault.
As to Hillary’s lost momentum, you can’t have momentum when an event never happened. It’s just as imaginary as Hillay being under sniper fire in Bosnia. Florida and Michigan violate DNC rules-not Obama’s rules but DNC rules. Hillary agreed to those rules before the primary season started.

To alessandro Machi, Clinton would not have won michigan in a real election.
Obama wasn’t on the ballots and independents voted in the gop primary.
Clinton is running 9 percent behind Mccain in michigan while Obama is running 2 percent ahead.
McCain is ahead of candidate Clinton 46-37 in Michigan.
Granholm moved the primary up before colleges were in session.
Michigan is much more upper midwest and well educated with huge campuses.
She would have lost michigan in a real election.
Polls showed Obama up 8 percent over candidate clinton in a real election.
Clinton is a lying fraud. Her supporters like liars. They are like peasants that want to be lied to by the great queen of the dynasty.

The popular vote theory is flawed.
The popular vote is not including washington state, nevada, colorodo, or iowa because those caucus states don’t allow their voter tallies released
Clinton is excluding those 4 states.
The popular vote theory is flawed because Obama’s strongest region is out west where they had caucuses not primaries.
Obama would have had big popular vote margins if iowa had a primary, if colorodo had a primary. If Minnesota had a primary.
Clinton is very weak west of the mississippi. Her old school uninspring personality hurts her out west.
Obama would be crushing her in the popular vote if his strongest states had primaries where his popular vote margin would be bigger.
Clinton is saying Obama should get no votes from Michigan. That she shut him out 320,000 to ZERO. Those black voters in detroit who voted uncommitted shouldn’t count. Those 230,000 votes shouldn’t count.
Candidate Clinton has no chance for the nomination. The math is against her.
The greatest day will be august 28th when candidate Clinton cries that she lost. She is a power hungry lying fraud.

Why dignify the ‘rogue state’ tally by including it at all? Such concern for
putative ‘balance’ requires an inadequate concern for the real meaning of what’s being reported, and is a serious disease in modern American journalism. Or perhaps it’s one of the other banes of our media today, an undue desire to stoke the fires for controversy.

tr that is more truth than I have heard in months. True, True.

Okay, now I am annoyed!
I was on last night and saw that blog, and it cheered me up as I imagine it did to whoever saw it in the Clinton campaign. Do you not think it possible that, hmmmm I don’t know, maybe they did read it this morning, even though you wrote it last night. I mean it WAS still there this morning, I saw it again.
Also, isn’t the number you have had posted and did update as well, reporting???
I would have called anything you have as a measure, vote count, delegate count, etc. as reporting. I don’t need a sentence to go with it. You posted it as a number, thus it was reported.
I am just a voter in Oregon, but come on, be fair. Nowhere in their quote do they quote a person.
Are you really being fair???
I think not

If you look at the polling numbers for states that Hillary won in early primaries, such as California, you will see that Obama is now polling much higher than Clinton.
So that argument goes both ways.

If Hillary’s lips move, she is lying.

How does the Democratic Party leave Michigan and Florida out??? Why does the media let Obama get away with blocking revotes? The media’s bias that causes them to side with Obama’s position is just wrong for voters in those states. How can Guam get a say and not Michigan and Florida??? Obama will lose a General.

Harley, i find your logic lacking. You try, as the Clinton’s have tried, to lie about Obama. Obama is not “blocking” anything. Just as they lied and said he was going negative. Just as Hillary LIED about smipers in Bosnia. Please try and tell the truth, if you Clinton supporters know what the truth is.
Lastly if the republicans are telling you to vote for Hillary, then i guess they think she definatly can beat McCain huh? Makes so much sense my head is going to explode.

Delegates cont and popular vote counts. Superdelegates will decide. What some people is confused about is with the general election. Electoral votes count not quantity ofstates, and Hillary Clinton has won the sates with more electoral votes, Obama has not won one single big state with importanat number of electoral votes. Obama is unelectable

It is foolish to believe that Hillary Clinton does not have a chance to win the nomination. If that were true there wouln’dnt be a race anymore and superdelegates would have pronouced already. Obama is unelectable. the popular vote and superdelegates will decide the nomination in favor of Hillary Clinton. Only chance to take the Republicans out of the White House. ABC and all the media orchaestrated by the Republicans won’t stop Senator Clinton. She won’t back down.

You sound indignant, to discover that the Clintons would spin and lie; why? – that’s all they’ve done this campaign, that is all they seem to understand. “Say anything, believe nothing:” the Clinton code of ethics – and why every campaign promise she makes is pointless dribble. “Well, all politicians do this” – no, they don’t; until Bush II most of our presidents could be held accountable for their elections. Clinton has already made it clear she intends to continue an imperial presidency and do what she likes in office. That means we cannot allow her back into the White House, and would need to impeach her if gets there.

How do you count the caucus votes? Especially where there is NO evidence of the raw vote tally? Do you just “estimate” the vote? Do you use the Washington state beauty contest vote or the “estimate” for the caucus? The difference is about 50,000 extra votes for Obama if you use the caucus estimate.
Overall the caucus “estimates” might add an additional 100,000 votes to Obama’s total.
So how you can discount Florida where everybody was on the ballot and no one campaigned but yet except “estimates” for caucus states is beyond me.

Caucueses – they count the votes there so lets say 50 people show up for a caucus 30 got to Obama and 20 go to Hilary, well the popular vote would be the 30 – 20.
All it is ballots given and people discuss the voting, but they still get a people count on the vote!

Rick,
It’s hardly fair to cry fowl on the Clinton Campaign when ABC on its Politics page lists the popular vote WITH Michigan and Florida (and without). By even listing it with, you give it credence. Therefore, Clinton has every right to tout it, since you shout it.
Frankly, the DNC ruled these contests could not be counted, Obama wasn’t on one of the ballots—there is nothing remotely FAIR about them and yet, you count them. That’s like saying, as one respondent has pointed out, that’s like including the government-stuffed ballot box in a communist election. It’s illegal, not democratic. If I were teaching students and said that these assignments didn’t count, and my students did no other work, then Iwouldn’t expect them to pass. I sure wouldn’t expect them to say “If you count assignments you said you wouldn’t count, I’d get an A”
Why are you perpetuating a lie? The DNC, the candidates–all agreed these didn’t count before—why should anyone reconsider, even in Fantasy Politics?

HRC cannot mathematically beat Obama and therefore should not get ANY super delegate votes. At this point her ONLY plan is to somehow damage the Dem Party and Obama enough to the point where Obama loses the general election (impossible) and she runs in 2012. Even the Rep party is afraid of an Obama nomination, hence the Rovian/Limbaugh push for Rep party members to vote for HRC. If she had any moral compass what so ever she would “gracefully” bow out now and put her support behind the PEOPLE’S Choice.
The rules to which HRC agreed to were in place over a year ago and now that she is losing she wants to break those rules. In my mind she should have been disqualified from the entire primary process by cheating when she allowed her name to go on the ballot in Michigan. At this point she sounds like a spoiled child who isn’t (and frankly shouldn’t) getting her way. If you want to count Florida and Mich. make it a 50/50 split and be done with it.

Double digit win? 9.2 rounds down to 9, not up to 10… You must be using the same abacus as Clinton.

After the ABC-hosted PA “debate”, I find it hard to believe that ABC is not directly supporting Clinton’s ridiculous position regarding the popular vote count.

You can’t exactly call Michigan a victory against Obama when they didn’t even put him on the ballots to begin with.

In all seriousness, after the completely botched and biased debate, does this network still have a shred of legitimacy?
I would argue that it was the ABC handling of the debate that turned this entire campaign into a three-ring circus. The sad fact is, they’re continuing to do so. Please stop. You’re harming America.

“yet Obama ran ads on CNN breaking the rules!!”
CNN (television, at least) is a national broadcast network and thus does not support specific localization of markets. So if you’re talking about TV, then no, he did not break the rules. He simply ran national ads.
If Clinton had the money to do so, she would have done the same.

Unfortunately for many of us Khan, is the fact that WE didn’t put ourselves on the bubble, the lovely Baby Boomers did. The younger crowd, including myself, are now stuck with the prospects of a failing economy, record oil prices, no social security, etc. So thanks for that… good reason enough not to vote for Clinton, or the status quo.

A University of Pennsylvania study conducted before the Penn Primary says that despite the Clinton claim that caucus states are unfair and really aren’t as important as primaries, the rules of caucuses actually HELP her. The raw popular vote in caucuses are not counted, rather each caucus site selects a number of delegates. So the numbers that get reported are only DELEGATES not raw popular vote. If popular votes were figured in ( and this isn’t 100% accurate) the U of Penn estimated that Obama would be ahead by roughly 2 Million votes.
The larger point is that this is exactly why people hate Hillary. She moves the goal posts to suit her notion of victory. She has 0% chance of winning the nomination without forever fracturing the democratic party. Yet she clings to whatever metric that she can spin to justify her staying in the campaign. This is about HER ambition, not the welfare of the people.

Does anyone stop and think that if Hillary were elected that would mean that either a Bush or a Clinton would have been president for almost a quarter of a century? How can she call her campaign about change? Of the millions of families in America, there must be someone other than a Bush or a Clinton to hold the highest seat. Having HRC elected would sound more like a monarchy than a democracy.
Besides her spin on the PA results, I love the one about having more experience. By that logic her husband should never have been elected president, I mean George H. Bush obviously had more experience during that election, he was only the president at the time.

Hey, Light315…
The GOP doesn’t need anything to attack Obama: “Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Hussein Obama” is all the Repubs need to win.
And “If you vote McCain over Obama, we know which side of the fence you are on.” Really? You’re automatically racist if you don’t vote for Obama?
Well, brand me as such ’cause I ain’t voting for him. Am I sexist ’cause I ain’t voting for Hillary? Am I biased against the elderly ’cause I ain’t voting for McCain? Maybe I’m just smart enough not to play follow the leader when it comes to politics and decisions that can impact the country and the whole world. Maybe I’m strong enough not to vote against my convictions and conscience.

Some caucus states record the individual person’s vote. But at least four do not (notably Iowa, for one) and only record the local precinct delegates that emerge from each individual caucus.
In a true popular democratic vote, each person’s vote counts so that if you win by just one vote, you still win. But the notion of a national popular primary vote is flawed for at least two reasons (1) it can’t be counted accurately and (2) caucuses and primaries have different turnout rates, so that some states are grossly underrepresented in any popular vote tallies.

“Maybe I’m strong enough not to vote against my convictions and conscience.”
And what makes you the flag bearer in that respect? I’m sure as hell not voting based on what is neat and cool. It’s ignorant statements like those that ensure partisanship will dominate politics for many years to come.

Yea!!!actualy input from a voter in Michigan. Again the half truths prevail with the Clinton family. Hillary has no grace (among other things like lack of trust-illegal campaigning much much more)-that is why I switched to Obama-I honestly feel terrible for people who are in need of hope and hold on to every word Hillary says. The truth is, Hillary doesn’t care about any of these people-she cares about her own agenda. Watch the Hillary movie and then let me know how you feel. She can’t grab the bull by the horns with super delegates on her own, she is now copying Obama’s campaign style and lying about the popular vote. Does she really think American’s are in the dark? Hello!
Go OBAMA-thanks for your honesty and not selling your soul to the political machine!!!!!

I can’t believe it!
The Clinton camp made a False statement!
It would be News if they made a True
statement!
It’s time for Hillary Pinnochio Clinton
to Go Home!

To: mirthinstjoe
How about this missleading statment on OB’s web-site!
PLAN FOR ENDING THE WAR IN IRAQ
“But conventional thinking in Washington lined up for war. The pundits judged the political winds to be blowing in the direction of the President. Despite – or perhaps because of how much experience they had in Washington, too many politicians feared looking weak and failed to ask hard questions. Too many took the President at his word instead of reading the intelligence for themselves. Congress gave the President the authority to go to war. Our only opportunity to stop the war was lost.
I made a different judgment. I thought our priority had to be finishing the fight in Afghanistan. I spoke out against what I called ‘a rash war’ in Iraq. I worried about, ‘an occupation of undetermined length, with undetermined costs, and undetermined consequences.’ The full accounting of those costs and consequences will only be known to history. But the picture is beginning to come into focus.”
—Barack Obama, Clinton, Iowa, September 12, 2007
I have checked out his web page! Because I have incountered a lot of BO Followers that beleave he voted no in the Senate on the Iraq War! That vote took place in Oct. of 2002; BO did not inter the Senate untill Jan. 2005!

Given the probability that Hillary Clinton was going to be the Dem nominee to win the 2008 election–a foregone conclusion at the inception of this campaign given the abysmal record of the Bush regime–there suddenly emerged the “perfect opponent” to insure divisiveness among the Democrats: a black male named Barack Obama.
Obama’s campaign warchest was instantly flooded with millions of dollars.
My antennae went up:
WHO or WHAT was the OZ behind THIS curtain? WHO stood to gain by an intra-party conflict of the magnitude that has ensued?
And WHO actually had the bucks to make his campaign fly?
There was only one answer: the folks with the REAL money. There is a certain group that was quaking in their boots at the changes that Hillary’s election might well bring about: a fair shake for the average American.
The Democrats I know are not known to have $1000 bills to spare, to toss into election coffers. So the true source of all the millions and millions of dollars being thrown at Barack Obama, using logic and reason,
HAD to be linked to the people who stood to suffer financially by Hillary’s election: Republicans and their minions in corporate America: insurance, oil, pharmaceuticals, those who had effectively frozen all wage advances for the average worker during the Bush reign..in short..it HAD to be corporate America vis a vis the Republican Party who were betting on a “ringer” to disrupt the inevitability of Hillary’s election.
No matter the outcome, their reasoning was that the entire Hillary vs Obama process would promote infighting and reveal the weaknesses of each Democratic candidate, ultimately to be (hope hope!) exploited in the final battle for the White House and have ANOTHER Republican in control.
The focus of this campaign is the ONE TRUE QUESTION facing us as Americans:
Are we going to CONTINUE TO allow ourselves to be manipulated and divided, this time using race and gender, to our ultimate defeat?
Will this Napoleonic attempt to “divide and conquer” (again) be successful?
Did we learn NOTHING in the wake of the manipulation of the Christian right that resulted in the George Bush/corporate regime that has dragged us into the “anything-BUT” Christian position of war, devastation,torture, financial and fiscal destruction, wholesale outsourcing of jobs and the medical vulnerability of EVERY American only one serious illness away from being financially devastated?
If McCain rides on the back of prejudice into the White House we have sorely failed as citizens of these UNITED States.
Dear God, I hope all Americans let the scales fall from their eyes.
Remember WHO owns the television media and controls the political commentaries–and commentators of ALL ilk, including the talk show hosts….
It ain’t the man or woman who lost HIS job last month.
and THINK ON THESE THINGS.
The vote wisely and according to your conscience and common sense.