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May 21st, 2008 WW Editorial Staff | Rogue of the Week
 

Hillary Clinton

The calculus of desperation

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BYE-BYE, OREGON: Hello, Roguishly fuzzy math.

In the days before Oregon’s May 20 primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton made a dubious claim while barnstorming Kentucky, which held its primary the same day as the Beaver State.

“I am leading in the popular vote,” Clinton said in a CNN broadcast. “More Americans have voted for me.” Clinton’s Oregon campaign echoed that claim in a news release May 18. But Clinton’s math is fuzzy or outright misleading, giving her at least one landslide victory before she leaves Oregon—in WW’s Rogue primary.

Her Oregon news release cites ABC News, which put the popular vote at 16,691,639 for Clinton and 16,648,060 for Sen. Barack Obama before May 20. Those numbers include the disputed results in Florida and Michigan. Neither candidate campaigned in those states after the national party stripped their delegates for holding early primaries. Obama wasn’t even on the ballot in Michigan.

And ABC’s tally uses caucus results in Iowa, Nevada, Maine, Washington and Texas, which never reported the number of actual votes cast. ABC instead counts initial delegates in those states, a far lower number. Obama won four of those five caucuses, losing only Nevada. If you estimate the number of votes cast in those states, ABC said Obama was slightly ahead in the popular vote, even including the disputed states of Florida and Michigan.

Julie Edwards, Clinton’s Oregon spokeswoman, stands by her candidate’s tally. “This is who people cast ballots for,” she says. “What is a better reflection of the will of the voters?”

Assuming Oregon’s polls before press time were accurate (check wweek.com for all the election coverage), state D’s delivered the best response to the bogus Clinton claim: They chose Obama.

 
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05.21.2008 at 09:28 Reply
People are doing such horrible things that truly affect other people in horrible ways. They deserve to be Rogue of the week. This is just silly.

 

05.21.2008 at 11:05 Reply
I agree-it's not really "rogue-ish" behavior, just politics.

 

05.21.2008 at 03:01 Reply
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Hillary doesn't play any dirtier than Obama, for goodness sakes! Take a look at what Obama did while running in his Il. Senate race...he used procedural shenanigans to block other candidates from being on the ballot so he could run uncontested. It won him the race, although earned him some enemies as well.

As for MI..Obama chose to remove his name. Dodd, Kucinich, & Clinton left theirs' on. Obama actually sent mailers to MI urging voters to vote uncommitted. A little bit of subliminal campaigning, wouldn't you say?!?!

In FL..Obama received permission from the DNC to run a national ad for two weeks there. They should not have allowed Obama to do this . He should have only run a state specific ad in other states. Why does he get away with breaking rules when he likes to accuse Hillary of being the only one to do this. Me thinks one took a bite of the hypocritical apple...

My sister once lived in Portland, OR, and it is one of the prettiest places I have ever visisted, however, their Democratic party tends to be too liberal, and hence, a poor selector of a democratic nominee who has the best chance of winning in November. Hillary is the better candidate late in the season, she is the one who is better able to win swing states, and the more formidable foe for McCain.

As for MI/FL...The party leaders should be fined perhaps, but to assign the same accountability to the voters as well, is pure stupidity on the DNC's part. With this unprecedented race, we must revisit the FL/MI debacle.

Obama has repeatedly said counting FL/MI wouldn't change the outcome, so he should for once, MAN UP, and either count the votes, or he should not have blocked having a primary revote. I know Obama likes caucuses, but anybody who has any sense at all knows caucuses are certainly not representational. We should decide FL/MI, and when this is all said and done, scrap delegates, superdelegates(of which, Obama has paid more money to date), and go with popular vote completely. Giving caucuses the same weight, and sometimes more weight, in delegates awarded, as primaries, is absolutely ludicrous, and this should be clear to anybody who knows how caucuses work.

My sister, a Republican, is glad to see obama win the nomination, as she thinks he'll be easier to defeat. I tend to agree with her.

 

05.21.2008 at 11:04 Reply
The idea that Obama will be easier to beat is simply Republican propaganda aimed at convincing people that the Democratic nominee can't win, for no good reason. it's time to stop such nonsense.

 

05.26.2008 at 04:16 Reply
I can't believe you chose Hillary as the rogue rather than some dirty dog up at OHSU snubbing the medical marijuana users for organ transplants.

 

 
 

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