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Manufacturing a "Virtual Tie" -- with a Little Help from the Post
In today's front page "Hillary as John Paul Jones" article by Perry Bacon and Anne Kornbluth, the spin-fact distinction is given the day off:
Bill Clinton sent out an e-mail, titled "Not big on quitting," on Saturday that reminded supporters that his wife is behind in the popular vote by less than one percentage point and that she trails by 130 delegates.
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well i think the 130 is somewhat right if you add superdelegates, and the less than one percent is including MI and FL, so yes they are misleading people.
March 30, 2008 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
What exactly is your complaint? Over at RCP, if you go by the total actual votes cast - including FL, MI, and estimates for the caucuses where no official tally was kept - Obama leads by 0.6 percent.
MI and FL don't count for pledged delegates, but Democrats in those states voted in good faith in elections sanctioned by the state parties and state law - if we are counting moral weight, which is all the popular vote counts for, those voters have as much right to be heard as any others.
Sure, Obama's name was not on the MI ballot, but who's choice was that. He took his own name off, to go the extra mile in pandering to Iowa and NH.
In short, Bill Clinton's comment is factually correct, though it differs from the approved spin among the respectable classes, who tilt heavily toward Obama.
March 30, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
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