The Mental Masturbator

Hillary’s Latest Desperate move

More news from the campaign that never ends. Hillary’s latest desperate move: Suggesting that the superdelegates should pick the nominee based on electoral votes. What electoral votes you ask? This is a primary after all. Well, obviously, it’s the ones they would have won in the imaginary scenario where they get the votes from the states they’ve won in the primary. Of course, the biggest most obvious flaw with this metric is that this is a Democratic primary and not a general election vs a Republican. The loss of a state now does not preclude their winning it in November. For example, the idea that Obama won’t win New York in the fall because Hillary won it in February makes zero sense.

This reeks of a desparate attempt to redefine the Democratic primary as a winner-take-all contest. The amazing thing to me, however, is how close it is even with this bullshit metric. Somehow conventional wisdom has been that if this had been a winner-take-all contest Hillary would be well in the lead or already won, yet when you look at their estimation of how this plays out electorally it’s actually pretty damn close: Clinton 219, Obama 202.

So good for her, she’s “winning.” Do they really think no one can figure out the severely flawed logic behind this metric? She just needs to give up. But since she hasn’t, take a look at this quote:

[Clinton backer/senator] Mr. Bayh said: “Well, I do think the popular vote is important. But that’s a circular argument. It brings us back to Florida and Michigan.” [source]

What does that even mean? How is it circular logic? This is a democracy. Saying the popular vote is important isn’t even logic, it’s the core value of our union. Oh, what’s that Mr Bayh? You have more to sayh?

But ultimately, you know, if you look at the aggregate popular vote, and as we all recall in 2000, to our, as Democrats, great sorrow, we do elect presidents based upon the Electoral College.

Riiiight. So we should have our own little private Democratic replay of that debacle. Good plan. Let’s pick our nominee the same way we “picked” George Bush. Not just a good plan, a great fucking plan. I can’t understand why she’s losing so badly. Anyway, for the sake of being gentlemanly I’ll give Hilldawg the last word:

I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president. -Hillary Clinton, 2000