We're about to go into the backroom part of the primary season, according to Chuck Todd last night, since only a few states remain to vote and since the most delegate-rich states will already have been counted. Clinton's argument will be based on her count of the popular vote, and of course she'll try to include the skewed and invalid results of FL and MI in her total.
But what I don't see being mentioned is that in reality there is no popular vote, or at least no national popular vote that includes all the states. There's no record of any kind of popular vote from the caucus states.
Clinton's hypothetical "popular vote" is a myth, unless one is willing to radically discriminate against the residents of the caucus states, which would obviously be injust and undemocratic. This imaginary inclusive popular vote doesn't exist, so it can't be counted.
The caucus states - as Clinton has pointed out - don't even try to attract the mass of Democratic voters. They count activists and others willing to put in hours of their time in public to support their candidate.
Regular voting is done in private, and normally takes only a few minutes. It's an entirely different kind of political expression than participation in a caucus. And as we've seen this spring, caucuses yield much smaller numbers than primaries, with the majority of (potential) party-member voters not participating and not being counted.
The only way to combine the two methods, voting and caucusing, is to convert their differing types of results into the common currency of delegates, the way the system is designed to work.
So when Clinton tries to do her spinning tonight and in the weeks ahead let's not fall for it. Let's spread the word: There is no popular vote. There are only delegates.