This is a response to a diary from earlier today. The frustration is that Obama surrogates do not push back against Hillary's popular vote argument.
I have written several diaries trying to calculate the popular vote and I wrote this last one, to write my conclusion that Hillary will probably NOT get the popular vote out of Puerto Rico. She won't net the 120,000+ votes that I calculated she would need to win when you include both Florida AND Michigan, while also allocating part of Uncommitted to Obama.
The thing is, Hillary had the chance to win using that metric if she netted enough from Puerto Rico.
In that situation, the WORST case scenario would be for them to have spent 6 weeks saying "Nope! If you include Michigan's Uncommitted Obama's still ahead!!!!!!!!!" This would have created a threshold that Hillary would have crossed to "gain" the popular vote. Her case would be FAR stronger.
So, if Obama surrogates debated the popular vote on the basis of, "Well when you include the caucuses and X percent of Uncommitted etc" WHEN Hillary crossed it, she could claim "Well, look. I have now passed THEIR definition of the popular vote."
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