There are several overwhelming reasons why Hillary Clinton's argument's about the popular vote is absolute nonsense. She argues that she is winning the popular vote and that is what should matter in figuring out who the nominee will be. Neither one of these things is remotely true for the reasons we explain below:
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Why Hillary's Popular Vote Argument is 100% Nonsense
Posted Apr 28th 2008 10:57AM by Cenk Uygur
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46. Hey Turks; Get a real life. Obsessing about this kinda crap will get ya nowhere. What we have so far is an election with 3 of the worst choices ever. Lesser of the evils, to be determined perhaps. Why you worryin' about it now? You'd have plenty of time to worry if your choice gets the White House..................................
Special K at 8:12PM on Apr 26th 2008
47. Would someone please explain about caucuses and why they should or should not count?
unicornsong at 9:23PM on Apr 26th 2008
48. It doesn't matter if you vote for Clinton, Obama, or McCain-they are ALL owned by big business.
Vote for Ralph Nader if you want to give our country back to it's people.
Susan at 9:29PM on Apr 26th 2008
49. We can only wonder why the OLD Turk is a jerk..again
DontThinkSo at 9:51PM on Apr 26th 2008
50. the caucases were a joke...the MoveOn Obama warriors chased everybody away including 4 of us who were for Clinton. A complete farce
DontThinkSo at 9:54PM on Apr 26th 2008
51. Florida votes should and will be counted. Perhaps Hillary will put a sane person in charge of the DNC and eliminate the primary/caucus debacle. As for the current situation, if the media had not fallen in love with the muslim running for President twelve months ago and asked pertinent questions there would not be a hundred Americans who even remembered his name today because he would have been rejected outright. Now the media is beginning to take a closer look at his ties to radical muslims, terrorists, the weathermen faction, Rezko (a Syrian muslim)and Khalidi to name a few. What really takes the cake is that even now, not one media outlet has discussed anything from his book "Dreams from my father".
Just a simple cursory look at the contents would turn the average American away from Obama. He hates his mother, her mother and all whites and pledges allegiance to Africa. Why would any sane
patriotic American vote for such a despicable, racial supremist, African loving elitist. If the blacks in America had a KKK Obama would be the Grand Dragon!!!!!
Jack Cornn at 10:34PM on Apr 26th 2008
52. Many of you are forgetting the only reason Hillary is winning in states such as Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania is because of Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos". It will be interesting to see what the outcome is in Kentucky. Operation Chaos has already been thwarted there.
cmjmmorgan at 11:52PM on Apr 26th 2008
53. If Hillary doesn't admit she has lost, we are facing the inevitable loss of the White House to McCain in November..and I will never, personally, forgive her and Bill for their lunacy in persevering in a this race. They have lost their statesmanship credentials entirely, and the only explanation I can muster is that the Impeachment years created a joint PTSD Syndrome for them which now threatens to doom our democracy...Horrors..
TerrencesS at 1:00AM on Apr 27th 2008
54. The most astonishing thing about Hillary is that she is in total denial about how she is literally being Set Up by the sleazy Karl Rove-Loving community, including operation chaos by the horrible beast, Flush Limbaugh, and by the Republicans who have crossed over to give her the nomination, so they don't have to experience the landslide that Obama will bring if nominated. She even swallowed the Mellon-Scaife gesture hook, line and sucker, and she is running the risk of entirely ruining the Democratic Party and our chances for an opportunity, with Obama's leaderhip and Statesmanship, to resurrect this dying Democracy. The PTSD syndrome that the Clintons are exhibiting, with controlled RAGE AND REVENGE-SEEKING VITRIOL, IS A REACTION TO THE IMPEACHMENT YEARS AND THEY HAVE OBVIOUSLY NOT DEALT WITH IT AT ALL EFFECTIVELY. I FEEL SORRY FOR THEM, BUT WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE THEY CAN STILL SEE HOW DISTORTED A VIEW THEY HAVE BEEN HELPED TO DERIVE FROM THE CAMPAIGN. IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO GIVE UP AND GIVE IN, AND PUT ON THEIR STATESMANSHIP HATS ONCE AGAIN..GOD HELP US, OTHERWISE..WITH McCAIN AS OUR PRESIDENT. THIS DEMOCRACY IS IN ABSOLUTE PERIL, AND I AM SHOCKED AT THE ABSENCE OF OUTRATE...WAKE UP AMERICA..WE ARE DROWNING IN IDIOCY...
TerrencesS at 1:16AM on Apr 27th 2008
55. Terrence
An Obama nomination could mean a McGoven like loss in November. The Reagan Democrats will vote for McCain before voting for the radical left MoveOn controlled Obama. Obama would be lucky to carry 5 states in the November run.
robert okane at 4:51AM on Apr 27th 2008
56. Oh well one can only hope for justice to come, I guess I will just continue to dream on.
Patty at 7:45PM on Apr 25th 2008
Patty you are soooo right about the rules being drawn up long before the primaries. Richard Reeves of the L.A. Times wrote an article explaining how the rules were drawn up and why they were done the way they were. He also points out that the Clinton team obviously failed to read the "fine" print in the rules while the Obama team studied them carefully and geared their campaign accordingly.
Reeves has been friendly ,for a long time , towards the Clintons but was able to write a column that clearly showed how they screwed up. I think it was called "Clinton Team's Big Mistake" In it the ground rules were clearly laid out for all to see and read and lastly sign off on. Funny how the "rules" need changing because somebody did not read them more carefully and is now losing because of it.
M2D5 at 7:52AM on Apr 28th 2008
57. Connect the Dots...............
First off: Ex-President, Obama super delegate Jimmy Carter meets with leaders of Hamas.
And then: Hamas top political adviser Ahmed Yousef endorses Obama.
If the Obama of 'Now' was known back then (Iowa), does anyone think he would still be in the race!!!!!!!
Slick Teleprompter Oratory is no substitute for Shady Personal Associations!!!!!!!
Paul Sparcello at 11:12AM on Apr 28th 2008
58. The Clintons are out of control!! I hope that Barack Obama can pull off the nomination. Hillary thought at the beginning of this contest, she was a shoe-in. Sometimes, even big wheels have flat tires. John McCain makes things up and then denies them. He was plilandering with Miss Cindy, divorced his wife and married Miss Cindy two months later. I can't wait for all their drama to come out. He married her for money...gee I am wondering who is funding his campaign. He as an anger problem...that's just we need as our President...an old, cancerous,ex-POW who is trigger happy.The way I see it....they can all have their plans, but it all goes through many avenues to pass. Just because they say will do this and that, doesn't mean it will become reality..."read my lips". It's the same old story every four years..."Garbage In and Garbage Out".
Lynne Richards at 11:38AM on Apr 28th 2008
59. I think Bill Clinton has always been a little mentally unbalanced but I think like John McDouga; said he has "Post bypass surgery cognitive dysfunction". I think both he and Hillary are both physchopaths as they are both so narcissistic. she is such an androgynus person and both like power at any cost.I pray that she does not become the nominee as the USA would be in a lot of trouble. How come no one is talking about the Clintons past and the corruption of the two of them. They are shameless.
VOTE4OBAMA at 11:44AM on Apr 28th 2008
60. If Hillary is not the winner. I will write her name or go Independant. There is no way in hell I will vote for OBAMA, or anyone else that has any common sense would vote for him. After all the lies he's told. The media is so biaised against Hillary never saw anything like it. Buddy if Larry Sinclair comes out Obama is a goner. Of course I guess the press knows about that too. I don't know why he don't hang it up?
Fazzy162 at 12:28PM on Apr 28th 2008