Clinton Maintains She Holds Popular Vote
(CBS)
From CBS News’ Ryan Corsaro:
JUNCTION CITY, ORE. -- Hillary Clinton continues to say she is ahead of Barack Obama in the popular vote, despite questions over whether or not her campaign's numbers are misleading in making that claim. The Associated Press reported yesterday that the math used to arrive at that conclusion make the assertion "a stretch at best."
Undaunted, Clinton sat down at a kitchen table with families to talk about issues in relating the economy, blaming a large part of the effect Americans are feeling on high oil prices.
While Obama and John McCain have been taking swipes at one another, Clinton went after President Bush for meeting with Saudi Arabian leaders, saying his trip is to “basically have tea with them while people are suffering,” and claiming the Saudis could drop the price of oil with a “flick of the pen.” She said that the behavior of corporations like oil businesses become greedy because of human nature, saying “that’s just the way they are.”
She maintained it was the government’s job to leverage their power, and that it was the responsibility of Washington to build an alternative energy market that loosened the grip of oil companies and influence by foreign countries. “The government has to create the market and once they create the market, it's off to the races,” said Clinton.
At the end of the meeting, one of the women sitting with Clinton, Sandy Mehlbrech, turned to her, saying “Please stay in this race.”
Clinton appeared slightly uncomfortable by Melbrech’s sincerity and desperate tone, and explained she was ahead in the popular vote and would carry on campaigning, having "50,000 more votes, which very exciting, because that’s important.”
Question have risen as to the math which allows the Clinton campaign to say they have the popular vote, which disregards votes for Obama in some caucuses and counts votes by Michigan and Florida voters, whose primaries are not recognized by Democratic National Committee this year due to penalties from changing their primary dates.
By Hillary''s tally of the votes that count, she''s ahead.
7 days ago, using an AP report,
Hillary Clinton used RACE(fear)
to impact
the Last & Only Remaining Measure
in the democratic race for the nomination:
THE POPULAR VOTE
:: and to use race
:: to rile whites to the polls
:: in the few remaining states
:: to win the popular vote
:: is just so WHITE
the nomination process sits in a representative system
that is understood, accepted
and agreed to
the delegate count
is the measure, mrs. clinton
as if you didn''t know
It would be UN-Democratic to not seat their Delegates.
It would be UN-Democratic to not give Hillary Clinton the Delegates proportionate to the votes that she won.
It would be an insult to our intelligence to suggest a 50/50 split or anything less than the delegates Hillary Clinton was given by the vote of the people.
We are well aware that Barack Obama went out of his way to remove his name from the Michigan ballet in an attempt to nullify our votes.
We are well aware that Obama contacted his campaign workers in Michigan and had them urge voters to mark the "none of the above" box on the ballet. He asked them to hold rallys and make radio announcements in an attempt to steal votes from Hillary Clinton.
We are aware that thousands of Hillary Clinton supporters did not even vote in response to being told their vote would not count.
We are well aware that it was Obama himself who denied Michigan and Florida the chance to have a re-vote.
Don''''t make us the Democratic Party that decided the American Flag would go back to having only 48 stars.
The bottom line is that regardless of what Hillary is trying to engineer, Obama is ahead in every concievable category and will win the nomination. This is why he has gotten 30 superdelegates over the past week to her handful as well as the endorsement of the steel workers union and JOHN EDWARDS. The last remaining states (Obama will win at least 4 of the last 6 contests) are not going to change that. The superdelegates will still keep rolling to Obama.
We need Hillary to stop reinventing math so that we can unite as a party and beat McCain. We cannot afford to have more infighting when George Bush and John McCain are taking swipes at our presumptive nominee, that makes for a two front war.
Whether you like it or not Obama will be the nominee and I hope all democrats and independents can agree that he is a much better candidate than 4 more years of the disastrous Bush policies.
I hated 8 years of George Bush. I was nauseous most of the time. Have you ever smelled rotting human flesh? I would rather walk into a sealed tight house in 100 degree heat that had 10 rotting dead bodies stacked up on the other side of the door and set down and eat a tuna fish and mustard sandwich...instead of having Bush in office a day longer. YET! I would rather have Bush in office the rest of my life than to have Obama in the White House for 1 day.
I realize that sounds harsh, but it looks like some of us are going to have to get a little harsh in order to shake our leadership into the reality of the situation and out of DENIAL.
We have to do whatever is needed to be done in order to get these people to take us seriously.
SO LETS DO IT PEOPLE!!!!
Yes I know it''s a challenge to be more obnoxious than the Obama people, but we have to do something!!
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The Clinton Legacy
http://clinton-legacy.org/
Heaven help us if Barack Obama wins the nomination because McCain will win.
Obama: 1,418
Clinton: 1,352
66 out of 2770 pledged.
That is very close and several primaries to go yet.
You have no idea what was said -you''re still stuck in Hillaryland. Of course Obama will hammer Bushy and McSame -they are not his fellow democrat.
and they''re doing a pretty good job of it.
It would be UN-Democratic to not seat their Delegates.
It would be UN-Democratic to not give Hillary Clinton the Delegates proportionate to the votes that she won.
It would be an insult to our intelligence to suggest a 50/50 split or anything less than the delegates Hillary Clinton was given by the vote of the people.
We are well aware that Barack Obama went out of his way to remove his name from the Michigan ballet in an attempt to nullify our votes.
We are well aware that Obama contacted his campaign workers in Michigan and had them urge voters to mark the "none of the above" box on the ballet. He asked them to hold rallys and make radio announcements in an attempt to steal votes from Hillary Clinton.
We are aware that thousands of Hillary Clinton supporters did not even vote in response to being told their vote would not count.
We are well aware that it was Obama himself who denied Michigan and Florida the chance to have a re-vote.
Don''''''''t make us the Democratic Party that decided the American Flag would go back to having only 48 stars.
Besides, next time it could be your state.
" . . Clinton sat down at a kitchen table . . ". Is this the only place left where she can afford to hold her "rallie? Why aren''t her "supporters" supporting her with their hard-earned money? I hope its because they have finally learned that it is really rather stupid to "continue to throw good money after bad".
HRC has started and spread so many lies about Obama that only she can set the record straight. She has a lot of hard work ahead of her with truth telling for a change, so she better come out of the denial she is perpetuating and correct the record!
BUT NOBAMA
BUT NOBAMA
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Action speaks louder than words. I was on another
web site last night and the Hillary supporters were
talking about REGISTERING AS REPUBLICANS AND NOT
COMING BACK TO THE PARTY UNTIL HILLARY GETS THE
NOMINATION.
This way it would be harder for the DNC to just
brush us off by saying we''''ll eventually all rally
around Obama......No Way, Nobama!!
I''''m going tomorrow and register as a Republican. If
you''re not already registered as a Democrat, you can
first register as a Democrat and a day or two later,
register as a Republican. It will show up as a lost
member on the Democratic Membership Roll by the
end of the week.
Sounds like a plan to me!!
I''ve seen enough of this Presidential campaigning to appreciate the intelligence of both Democratic candidates, but I see integrity only in Obama. Hillary is certainly a woman full of energy but short in ethical values and principles. I would not want such a leader for our country. She certainly has proven to us that she was willing to do "whatever it takes" to win this race!
He calls Obama elitist, when he clearly is a unique individual who through his own effort rose from a modest background and through education was able to channel his talents. Besides, he worked helping those who had not had the same opportunities he did.
Through this campaign I''ve seen in him a man of great capability and non-compromising integrity, sincerely focused on finding solutions to our national issues of economy, education and health insurance, while getting us out of the Irak mess and into more diplomatic approaches to international issues.
It seems to me that in voting for Obama we have the chance to make History... and what a change it would be from the last eight years!
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by truthyness
May 19, 2008 11:11 AM PDT
- IT''S ALL ABOUT *MONEY* !!!
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See all 42 CommentsMoney is pushing Hillary out of this election...
for just ONE reason,
and one reason ONLY.
HILLARY IS GOING TO TAKE THE MONEY THAT THE FILTHY
RICH HAVE BEEN STEALING FROM THE POOR FOR DECADES AND
MAKE THEM PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!!!
THE RICH DON''''T PAY TAXES, THEY HIRE LAWYERS TO KEEP
THEM FROM PAYING TAXES.
***HILLARY IS GOING TO MAKE THE RICH PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!!!!!
The filthy rich, the really, really rich will do,
anything, ANYTHING, to keep Hillary out of the White
House. AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!!!