Hillary: Do Away With Electoral College....Or Don't!

This is the funniest thing I've read all year, so far.  But it's shaping up to be a long year.  

Josh at TPM has a great story up this morning about how the Hillary supporters are not just moving the goalposts, but changing the sport altogether.

Reductio Ad Absurdum

I don't know where it was. It think it may have been a reader blog at TPMCafe. Wherever it was it was a post that ran down something like ten different ways of counting the popular vote, all to the end of showing that Barack's popular vote lead wasn't nearly so great and may not exist at all.

[...]

I remember, when I was a little kid playing chess with my dad (who unlike some Dad's never saw the point of throwing games in my favor) and sometimes when I lost I'd toss out some version of ... well, but if my rook could move diagonally, then ... You get the idea.

And that's not even the funny part.

The funny part is in a story in the NYTimes today entitled, "Clinton Backer Points to Electoral College Votes as New Measure"  Continuing with the theme of moving goalposts, we are treated to the latest in a long line of pathetic gambits to prove why Hillary should get the nomination.

Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.

He suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won.

"So who carried the states with the most Electoral College votes is an important factor to consider because ultimately, that’s how we choose the president of the United States," Mr. Bayh said on CNN’s "Late Edition."

I don't even want to go into how rdicuoous this is, suffice it to say, that he's trying to (in mid campaign) do away with the present system of apportioned delegates for a "winner-takes-all" arrangement in the Democratic primary.  And just to benefit HIS candidate.  How shocking!

Okay, here's the funny part:

Many Democrats, including Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Bayh, have opposed the Electoral College in the past, particularly after 2000, when Florida’s 25 electoral votes were awarded to George W. Bush, who became president, even though Al Gore, the Democratic nominee, had won the popular vote nationwide.

At the time, Mrs. Clinton, who had just been elected to the Senate, said, "I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president."

It's a wonder why the late-nite comedians had a problem with the writers' strike.  The Clinton camapaign is writing their material for them........