Eru, here is very good breakdown of the popular vote count using different methods of counting the votes:Erunáme wrote:When I was watching some of the clips, I saw that Clinton's people kept saying that she's won the popular vote? Is that really so? I thought I've read in this thread or the other that that isn't true.
2008 Democratic Popular Vote
Clinton has won under three different scenarios:
1 - the popular vote counting Michigan but not giving any of Michigan’s uncommited votes to Obama and not counting Iowa, Nevada, Washington & Maine, which were caucus states that have not released popular vote counts.
2 - the popular vote counting Michigan but not giving any of Michigan’s uncommited votes to Obama, and including estimates for the caucus states of Iowa, Nevada, Washington & Maine.
3 - the popular vote counting Michigan and giving Michigan’s uncommited votes to Obama but not counting the caucus states.
Basically, Clinton wins if you don’t count the caucus states and if you give her the Michigan votes without giving Obama anything. It is, in my opinion, a meaningless distinction at best and a downright dishonest and misleading one at worst.
I also noted that she brought it up again in her speech last night. I can’t for the life of me figure out how claiming that she beat the presumptive nominee is going to convince said nominee to pick her as his running mate. I clearly don’t understand politics.
