We can all talk about how ridiculous this popular vote nonsense is, and yes,  it really is nonsense.  

But the Clintons have been marketing false perception for quite some time.   

And that perception, regardless of reality, is undercutting the legitimacy of Obama's inevitable nomination.  (as others here have pointed out.)

You can't argue with the delegate math but you can weaken the perception of its value.  

Thousands of their most loyal supporters are buying it too.  

The Clintons are in a state of denial and that state has a trickle down effect. 

This has been going on since February/March 2008, when the Clintons did the math themselves and realized Sen. Clinton lost the legitimate path to the nomination.   

Actually, their denial goes back to early 2007 when Barack Obama entered the presidential race.  In a Washington Post article that ran in February 2007, David Axelrod laid out the path Obama was going to take to win the nomination:

Obama advisers said their campaign for the nomination may be more unconventional than Sen. Clinton's. "I think that the path to get there has to do with our ability to inspire a lot of people to get involved in this process who have not been involved, or who may have been involved once but lost heart," said David Axelrod, the campaign's chief strategist. "We have to give people a real sense of investment so that the electorate will maybe look a little different."

They've been underestimating Obama for over a year.  It's an arrogance that just won't quit.  

He won Iowa.  They said caucuses don't matter.  He won ten states in a row.  They said he only wins small states.  He can't win big states.  

I think it was a few weeks before the Pennsylvania primary when I first heard this Clinton campaign line:  The road to Pennsylvania Avenue goes through Pennsylvania.  

I've heard them use that same line, just switching the state to the one they happened to be campaigning in at the time.  The road to Pennsylvania Avenue goes through (your state here).

That's one really long circuitous road they're traveling on.  And as it turns out, it doesn't lead to Pennsylvania Avenue after all.

But don't tell them that.  

Now they're promoting their "every vote counts" tour.  It's getting a lot of press coverage and despite the fact that it is a fallacy, it has created a wave of support which has only intensified the division among democrats.  Last I heard, tens of thousands of Hillary fans will descend upon the highly promoted May 31st MI and FL showdown.  

Hundreds of thousand of Hillary supporters really believe that   Obama is trying to suppress the votes in FL and MI.  

Ridiculous, I know.  So do the superdelegates.  

But just because it's not  true doesn't mean people won't buy into it.  

To the people who do, June 3rd is meaningless.  It's not the end of the primary.  

But it is the end of the primary.  Barack Obama will have likely secured enough delegates to win the nomination.  

Reality doesn't just sink in on its own.  

Someone needs to start promoting it.