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Clinton leads in Clinton-won states

Wed May 21, 2008 at 09:10:31 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton has won.  It's all over.  In states where she received more delegates, she has won a majority of the elected delegates.  There's no way for Barack Obama to catch up.  Not reasonably.  Not quickly.  Not even tautologically.

If you count the states where she received more delegates, she's ahead 1022-704.  That's more than three hundred votes people! That's all 18 of the states!  How can we take this nomination away from her?

It gets even worse for Obama.  If you add her the superdelegate contests that she's won, she's ahead 1,315.5 to 704.  That's 65.1% of the delegates, in all the states where she won and all of the superdelegates who she's won.  That's a 30-point margin.  How can we take it away from her?

IT GETS EVEN WORSE FROM THERE.  If you look at states where Clinton won by a 30-point margin, she's ahead 124-31.  That's 80%-20%!, a 60% margin! Add in her superdelegates, that 417.5-31! 93%-7%!

HOW CAN THEY TAKE THIS AWAY FROM HER? The math is on her side! Any way you look at it (from counting Michigan and Florida, but not Iowa, Nevada, Maine, and Washington, to just counting states she's won) HILLARY HAS CLEARLY ALREADY WON.

Obama should be ashamed of how many states Clinton can't count, because she didn't win them.  He's making their votes not count because he won more of them.

Shame on him.  He's using Karl Rove-style tactics*.

*Also, Hillary should win because Karl Rove thinks she's the stronger candidate.

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