Hillarys Math is all About Long Division

According to TPM, in a private meeting on March 12th, Hillary Clinton gave a pep talk in which she predicted "We're gonna win this" Follow me over the fold for some insight into these Clinton strategy meetings.

Also according to TPM

fundraisers were given extensive presentations from top Hillary advisers and surrogates about strategy and about what needs to be done to win over super-delegates should she fail to close the pledged delegate gap

Her argument came down the the idea that to win this they have to talk the super delegates into considering

three "data points," as this fundraiser puts it, in considering whom to back: The pledged delegate count, the popular vote, and the specific states won by each candidate.

If any of us think this might come to an end any time soon, her own words to the attendees at these closed door meetings should be enough to encourage us to dig in and be ready to make calls and  donate cash.

she said, "I'm a fighter, when I get knocked down, I get right up, we're gonna win this."

 

Not to be a cynic, I know that Obama has the math on his side, but I think the Clinton campaign believes it has its own special math for winning this thing and it looks a lot like this.

EDIT I- I changed it to Long division because she does seem to be determined to drag this out ad infinitum- Thanks Antirove

•  Tips and Flames

  I am sure there will be both.

  by Seattlite on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:44:42 PM PDT

  •  Great Diary title.....tip'd & rec'd eom

    by kulshan on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:46:03 PM PDT

    •  Thanks!

      your rec is appreciated!

      by Seattlite on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:50:54 PM PDT

  •  You should contact the Obama campaign

    Your title would make an absolutely fantastic soundbite - that's what Obama needs right now in the media.

    by scimitar on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:55:30 PM PDT

    •  feel free to send it to them.

      Ill do the same:)

      by Seattlite on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:57:23 PM PDT

      •  Obama's problem is that he's too thoughtful

        It's a sad thing to say, but his camp needs to come up with snappy, bumper-sticker slogans to combat the spin that's coming from the Clintons lately. He needs that sound bite that plays over and over.

        by scimitar on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:58:50 PM PDT

•  Math puns...

  gotta love it.

  by Cardinal Tiger on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:45:34 PM PDT

•  the HrC campaign has the REAL numbers....

  like Rove in 06'.

  by kulshan on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:47:58 PM PDT

•  There's even more to her math...

  Irrational numbers for sure

  by mnguitar on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:50:17 PM PDT

  •  Probably some Large Deviations, too. N/T

    by Caelian on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:51:15 PM PDT

  •  LOL@ another great math pun...keep em coming,....

    folks , this could be fun.

    by kulshan on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:51:22 PM PDT

  •  Yes! i think of of Penn's ranting

    and her take on her chances are b oth irrational in the extreme, as are the claims of sexism working against her (claims Clintonites are leveling against female Obama-supporters).... this whole thing smacks of the  irrational

    by TuvanDrone on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:55:23 PM PDT

•  Awful vector math joke

  Q: What do you get when you cross an owl with an elephant?

  A: Owl elephant sin(theta)

  Q: What do you get when you cross an owl with a mountain climber?

  A: Can't do it, a mountain climer is a scaler.

  by Caelian on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:55:32 PM PDT

  •  Very nice

    My personal favorite math joke was a pick up line that was popular among the engineers: "I wish I was a derivative, so I could lie tangent to your curves."

    It made me laugh every time I heard it.

    by scimitar on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:04:45 PM PDT

    •  My favorite math joke: The Calculus Joke

      There is a mathematician who has lunch at the same diner every day and is quite friendly with one of the waitresses who always serves him.

      One day he says to her: "Tomorrow I want to play a joke on a friend, and I'm going to ask you a question.  I want you to answer 'X squared over two'.  Got it?  'X squared over two'."

      She says "fine", and the next day he brings his friend to lunch.  While they're eating, he says: "Nowadays, everybody knows calculus.  Here, let me show you."

      He signals the waitress and when she comes over he asks: "What's the integral of X dx?"

      She answers: "X squared over two... plus a constant."

      by Caelian on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:12:03 PM PDT

    •  Software Engineers prefer integration

      and taking the area under the curves using  interpolation based on fast spherical transforms for the multilevel fast multipole method.  Yeah, google that you engineer...that kind of proof may give you an identity crisis.

      Title Tweak Suggestion:
      Hillary's Math is about Long Division
      Since she's going to pro-long the campaign and divide super-delegates right into the convention sub-floor, determined to leave Obama with only the remainder, keeping the dividends to herself.

      Now, how to work on that triangulation technique she's so good at...something about the area of the high-potent-news and squaring off the opposite sides.  

      But I think it's more illuminating to identify a possible philosphy vector in use. Consider triangulation as a derivative of the Hegelian thesis|antithesis->sinthesis process applied to politics. Whoa...wait...we've heard of something like that before.

      by antirove on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:30:14 PM PDT

      •  Lol

        Long division it is!

        by Seattlite on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:33:44 PM PDT

        •  Hopeless Hopemonger?! Wow--that's a dialectical

          juxtaposition of theses that could baffle Hegel!

          by antirove on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:38:03 PM PDT

          •  LOL

            Thank God someone finally noticed it. I have been amused at it for some time and your the first to mention it. None the less, I am as I have said.

            A Hopeless Hopemonger.

            by Seattlite on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:43:59 PM PDT

  •  heh. I like it! nt

    by bubbanomics on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:06:41 PM PDT

  •  Ha!

    by Eidolon on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:29:16 PM PDT

    •  Cute sig. HRC may be using very small

      values of 5 for herself,
      and very large values of 5 for Obama.

      by antirove on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:35:13 PM PDT

•  Imaginary numbers never stopped me before. n/t

  by Lib Noodle on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:01:57 PM PDT

•  Not to nitpick

  but shouldn't it be "democratic party / me?"

  by happymisanthropy on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:02:47 PM PDT

  •  yup. HRC is the divisor, not the

    dividend.  And what's left, us, is the remainder. Sounds sad.

    by bubbanomics on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:08:15 PM PDT

    •  HRC cares about a Nov Victory

      Obama won't win because OH, MI, PA, FL are racist states.

      by lstware on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:11:11 PM PDT

      •  This is not a reason to vote for her

        Obama won't win because OH, MI, PA, FL are racist states.

        Are you saying we need to bow down to racists and vote for Hillary because she can appeal to them? Is that what  your saying?

        by Seattlite on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:21:54 PM PDT

      •  Oy.

        Thank you for your concern.

        by happymisanthropy on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 06:05:13 PM PDT

•  She rather have McCain that Obama be elected

  president, because that sets up 2012 for her.

  She is delusional.

  by Village expects idiot home soon on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:21:03 PM PDT

•  Me quoting Sullivan quoting Chait

  It's increasingly clear that this is now the Clintons' strategy. Chait:

  "[Clinton] needs to convince the remaining uncommitted superdelegates to split for her by about a 2-to-1 margin. The only way she can get a split like that is if she can persuasively argue that Obama is unelectable. And the only way she can do that is to make him unelectable. Some people have treated this as an unfortunate byproduct of Clinton's decision to continue her campaign. It's actually a central element of the strategy. Penn is already saying he's unelectable. It's not true, but by the time the convention rolls around, it may well be."

  Yes, they're despicable.

  by djs on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:29:02 PM PDT