Numbers are stubborn things.

So is Terry McAuliffe. As stubborn as they come.

Terry wants to count Florida & Michigan because he wants every vote to count. But he doesn't want to address the fact that many citizens didn't vote in these primaries because they were told that they wouldn't count.

This was especially true in Michigan where you couldn't vote for Obama, Edwards, & the rest because they weren't even on the ballot. Despite this fact, enough voters turned out in Michigan that "uncommitted" received 40% of the vote. Yes, 40% of the voters said in effect "anyboidy but Hillary". Yet, the Michigan state committee wants to give the majority of the uncommitteds to Hillary! That takes gall.

Terry is strangely silent on following the will of the voters who voted uncommitted in Michigan. There is no way to count these votes as anything other than against Hillary. Since Obama is the only other candidate still in the race, these votes clearly belong to him at this point in the mind of any reasonable person. But Terry McAuliffe is not a reasonable person when it comes to this race.

Terry wants to claim that Hillary will have the majority of the popular vote when this is over. Ignoring the fact that this is irrelevant under the system to choose a nominee, Terry arrives at his numbers by ignoring the uncommitted votes in Michigan. He then goes further by ignoring the votes cast in the 4 caucus states that do not keep records of popular vote totals.

But why have any logical consistency when you're a man-on-a-mission? Terry wants to stand up & fight for the "disenfranchised" voters of Florida & Michigan by disenfranchising voters in caucus states & by disenfranchising the voters in Michigan who voted "uncommittted. When we leave the bizarro world of Terry McAuliffe, these votes must also be included in the calculations. In the real world, Obam easily wins the popular vote even with Florida & Michigan included as voted.

I must add a footnote about Carl Levin, who has totally disgraced himself in this process. Not only is he personally responsible for the debacle of the January Michigan primary, but he has now gone a giant step further by leading the Michigan delegation to award "uncommitted" delegates to Hillary. She was on the ballot! Anyone who wante to vate for her could have done so! These votes belong to anyone but Hillary.

Levin & the leaders of the Florida Democratic Party are personally responsible for disenfranchising the voters in their own states - voters whose interests they were elected to represent. They failed miserably in meeting that responsibility. They now have the nerve to claim that they are fighting to have those constituents' votes count. They should instead be coming forward on their hands & knees with "mea culpas" for creating this travesty.