Via MAL Contends

- On ABC's News's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, viewers were treated to a graphic comparing the two Democratic candidates' performance thus far in the primary.

Stephanopoulos, following the disingenuous Clinton spin that uses its logic of primary-election-state performance morphing into general-election state performance, displayed the cumulative electoral votes (general election) total of every primary state that the candidates have won.

E-mail George and tell what you think: George.Stephanopoulos@abc.com

Cross posted from Huffington Post:

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via MAL Contends

When an American politician in the presidential general election campaign says his/her opponent is out-of-the-mainstream, it's a lie.

The losing opponent will garner at least some 45 percent of the vote, disconfirming out-of-the-mainstream status, though election votes are imprecise indicators of public opinion.

Comments from the Clinton inner circle in the last few days indicate that the Clinton campaign has settled on an end game strategy for the campaign. Are you ready for this? I'm going to go with "no."

Here are the pieces of the puzzle:

A picture is starting to emerge of how the Clinton campaign might move at the Democratic convention in its uphill battle for the nomination, and it is not a pretty one. In fact, it is so bare-knuckled and low-ball that it is not implausible to imagine it rupturing the Party.

To see the picture, you have to put together two reports, one by a Washington insider and another by a grassroots activist in Texas.

Update: I should think that we can state that Hillary's negative tactics have at the least divided and repulsed many, so how about Hillary knocks that shit off, if she were still around after this week?

...Hillary by ruthless, unethical measures brought the Democratic Party to a stand-still?

In light of her tactics in Ohio, Hillary is proving again why Wisconsin progressives (for instance) rejected her overwhelmingly.

I have to ask this (people really do despise Hillary here in Wisconsin) so I just wish to know if Wisconsin is an outlier.

The question in the poll below:

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Coming off the 17-point Obama rout in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face off tonight in a high-stakes Democratic presidential debate in Austin at the University of Texas, broadcast live on CNN at 7:00 pm central time.

A guy, seeing my Obama button yesterday, asked me at an elevator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hospital if the race were "over now".

Yeah, I think so, I said.

Facing a rebuke from Wisconsin voters next Tuesday and the unknown from Texas and Ohio on March 4, Hillary Clinton is desperate and seeking inspiration from Karl Rove to rig a Democratic presidential primary.

"Easy answers elude Mich., Fla. Delegates," reads a headline this morning, referring to the ongoing flap arising because the DNC and Michigan and Florida last year could not agree on the timing of the states' presidential elections.

Ridiculous. The easy answer is: Don't change the rules in the middle of the game.

- Easy answers elude Mich., Fla. Delegates