NRO & Karl Rove's last desperate plea for HRC

Right now you can find the National Review here with the headline "By my count, Hillary Clinton would now win more electoral college votes" for Karl Rove's Wall Street Journal "analysis". Why should you care? In case Hillary wants to prolong the electability argument.

And is it slimy? Of course. The NRO has put this out as a headline link and it's not featured in the article. When you click on the actual link, you get Rove's full "analysis".

The phrase is nowhere in the article. You might say it's an editor's job to distill the article to a headline but it is misleading. The closest you get is after the jump.

Rove writes:

My analysis of individual state polls shows that today Mr. McCain would win 241 Electoral College votes to Mr. Obama's 217, with 80 votes in toss-up states where neither candidate has more than a 3% lead. Ironically, Mrs. Clinton now leads Mr. McCain with 251 electoral votes to his 203 with 84 in toss-up states. This is the first time she's led Mr. McCain since I began tracking state-by-state results in early March.

Of course Rove wants you to think those extra 20 EVs would be easier to come by for HRC. But the joke would be on you and the country.

For the price of ink (virtual and real), Rove is doing what he can for the GOP. He has enough qualifications in the article that if it turns out wrong, he has covered himself. But this is lunacy (though a subtle plea for HRC at the head of the ticket):

State and local Democrats are realizing the toxicity of their probable national ticket. Democrats running in special congressional races recently in Louisiana and Mississippi positioned themselves as pro-life, pro-gun social conservatives and disavowed Mr. Obama. The Louisiana Democrat won his race on Saturday and said he "has not endorsed any national politician." The Mississippi Democrat is facing a runoff on May 13 and specifically denied that Mr. Obama had endorsed his campaign. Not exactly profiles in unity.

This isn't so much about Karl Rove, disgusting as he is. This is to be forewarned about the continuing assault on everyone's intelligence.

Discuss.