Clinton, before Obama clinched the democratic nomination, kept on claiming that she had won the popular vote in a last ditch attempt to attract super delegates. The fact of the matter is, however, that her number are extremely flawed. If you don't factor in the caucuses and factor in Michigan, yes, she won. But Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan and if you add up the "uncommited" votes in that state and estimate for the caucuses, Obama ends up ahead.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/06/02/clinton-s-popular-vote-claim-close-but-no-cigar.aspx
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/01/puerto.rico/
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Clinton-pop-vote-math
2 comments:
This whole election/electoral college thing is such a mess. That's the problem, popular vote doesn't even matter much anymore.
yeah, thats true, but Obama did get the democratic nomination, so its ok. I also have some serious problems with our whole electorl college system, but thats just my opinion.
I also noticed that this post doesn't have your usual tone of extreme anger and strong emotion. You don't seem to care as much as you usually do.
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