Hillary gained a net of 100,000 votes, last night, from Kentucky and Oregon. Is she, as she claims, ahead in the popular vote?
Nope. Now, we ALL know why the popular vote is a bullshit metric (this is a race for delegates, Florida would have been closer, he would have won Michigan, and etc, etc) but it's worth examining for the sake of pushing back on their spin. I looked over the various scenario on Real Clear Politics and found that he leads by anywhere from 552,000 to 70,000.
If you count the standard popular vote, Obama is ahead by 441,500. This number doesn't include some caucus states and with an estimate of those states, Barack's lead increases to 552,000.
If you throw in Michigan and Florida and DON'T count half of Uncommitted for Obama, and don't estimate caucuses...then Hillary leads by 181,000. This is the ONLY metric where she leads.
Let me repeat that so we all understand...
Hillary wants us to count Florida (even though neither campaigned there), count Michigan, (and give Barack ZERO votes), then NOT count the caucus states that didn't report a popular vote. And that's how she leads.
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