Like Rachel Maddow, I believe that Hillary's goal now is to put up as many road blocks as possible to keep this race going until the convention. I'm not sure whether this is because she wants to make it difficult, even impossible, for Obama to win in Novemeber, or because she wants to strongarm her way onto the ticket. In any case, she's not going to concede as long as she feels there's some chance that she can delegitimize Obama's soon-to-be victory.
In fact, I doubt she truly wants Michigan and Florida resolved on May 31st. If that situation is resolved, I'm convinced that she will use her ludicrous popular vote claim--which defies all logic, let alone ethics--to try to hold off superdelegates and take this all the way to Denver.
I hope the Obama camp comes out strongly on this, pointing out the holes in her claims, and I'm sure they will in the coming days, but in the mean time, please do your part by emailing the media with your feelings on this. Note that I'm not suggesting that the media doesn't already know this; it's more about making our voices--and our displeasure--heard and letting the pundits and surrogates know that we're not buying it.
Here's the email I sent to MSNBC. You can copy and paste it, or write your own, probably more effective, version.
Thanks!
Email:
CNN
letters@msnbc.com
(Or you can always email individual pundits, which is probably more effective anyway.)
Dear ______,
Please don't allow the Clinton campaign to get away with their erroneous "popular vote" claim. She is making herself out to be the Al Gore of 2008 and attempting to delegitimize Obama's victory.
First of all, the popular vote count does not include some caucus states that favored Obama. Also, her metric gives ZERO votes to Obama in Michigan, even though she keeps touting her win there "despite the fact that the Obama campaign tried to turnout the uncommitted vote." She can't have it both ways.
The Clinton campaign obviously believes that if they keep repeating this lie, the media will parrot it. As the media, it's your job to provide accurate information. Whenever you or Hillary's surrogates bring up Hillary's popular vote argument, it should be accompanied by the above facts and should not be allowed to pass unchallenged.
Thank you,
(Also, please email Chris Matthews hardball@msnbc.com to tell him that he's perpetuating false information; he just said that the latest Quinnipiac poll shows Obama losing PA, when in reality, the latest Quinnipiac poll shows Obama winning against McCain by 6 points.)