I had an Obama national campaign asshat tell me that Hillary should drop out because there's no way she can win. He said that's because Obama has won the popular vote, he has more delegates and has won more states. That is nothing but BS that compares apples to oranges to pears.

1) Popular vote? From the Huffington Post:
Late Update: There are some discrepancies between the figures for the popular vote between different news sites, and would alter my calculations substantially depending on who you believe. For example, in Kansas, CNN claims that 36,887 STATE DELEGATES represented the Kansas voters, whereas Real Clear Politics claims that 36,887 VOTERS represent the total. In contrast, CNN claims 406 STATE DELEGATES represented Alaska, whereas Real Clear Politics claims that 8,868 VOTERS represent the total. This, of course, is the reason to pursue the truth in these matters, and if Real Clear Politics says that only 36,887 'actual voters' came out to vote in Kansas, as opposed to, say, the 302,612 voters who came out to vote in Arkansas, which has virtually the same population, then I stand corrected. But it shouldn't stop the DNC from making a clear attempt to make sure these turnout numbers are correct.

Many DNC insiders fear that if Hillary Clinton manages to lose the pledged delegates, she may still take the lead in the popular vote, thereby causing the superdelegates to make a hard decision as to which candidate they should choose come August. Their fears are rooted in the notion that Clinton is only behind by roughly 800,000 votes, and that she could feasibly catch up with a big win in Pennsylvania.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-christ...

2) Pledged Delegates?? What? 150 delegates makes a mandate?

3) Number of states??? Ha! That reminds me of the RW'ers that claim Bush had an overwhelming mandate because he won more counties in the country. Check this out:



That's a helluva lot of red. If this was the measurement, 100,000 votes in Ohio didn't amount to a hill of beans. To argue that Obama won more states and therefore should be the nominee is as laughable as that map.

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