this infuriates me from asuncion.
I appreciate Hillary Clinton’s resolve in the campaign, but she needs to stop misleading her supporters and her party. Clinton has been agitating aggressively for the DNC to count the delegates from “Michigan and Florida.” Note, she never says “count the delegates from Florida” or “count the delegates from Michigan,” but rather, “count the delegates from Florida and Michigan.” And here’s why:
There is no argument for counting the votes in Michigan alone. All democratic candidates agreed to remove their names from the ballot, but Clinton and Gravel shirked on the deal. Hillary ran unopposed in Michigan.
Nor will she ever say “just count Florida.” she and John Edwards were the only two candidates to campaign with any seriousness in Florida because all candidates agreed upfront that the results would be disqualified. Disregarding this and adding Florida to the tally of the popular vote, Clinton still doesn’t have a popular majority.
So let’s be clear. When Clinton says she has the popular vote, she means that she has the popular vote if you count the state in which she campaigned unopposed, and the state in which she actually was unopposed.
*fun edit: 240,000 voters in Michigan voted “Uncommitted-D” as opposed to “Hillary Clinton-D.” If you count all of the votes from Florida, and then attribute just under 3/4 of those “uncommitted” votes to Mr. Obama (uncommitted votes being those who voted against Clinton), then Obama still has the popular vote.
