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Obama wins Texas;
Billary's cunt-a-thon cuntinues
Because Billary Cunton narrowly won the popular vote in Texas' Democratic presidential primary election last month, the mainstream media characteristically oversimplistically reported that Billary won Texas.
Not so fast. The awarding of Texas' delegates to the Democratic National Convention is a complicated, drawn-out process -- popularly referred to as "the Texas two-step" -- that includes not just the primary election but also the post-primary-election caucuses, and the winner of the highest number of delegates from the state of Texas is Barack Obama, not Billary Cunton.
When all was said and done, Obama got 99 delegates from Texas to Billary's 94.
Just as the Electoral College, not the popular vote, determines who sits in the White House (well, OK, so five Repugnican-appointed "justices" of the U.S. Supreme Court helped Gee Dubya an awful lot in December 2000 when he lost the popular vote but "won" the Electoral College), it's the number of delegates, not the popular vote, that determines who the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate will be.
And "Obama leads the overall race for the Democratic nomination with 1,631 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Clinton has 1,501, according to the latest AP tally," notes The Associated Press today.
As calls for Billary to just pack it in already continue to mount, Billary today lied that it is Team Obama -- rather than an American people who are sick and tired already of a long and drawn out Democratic primary season -- that wants her to stop her futile quest for the White House.
Reports The Associated Press today:
... In a series of television interviews in states holding upcoming contests, Clinton vowed to press on with her campaign and suggested Obama and his supporters wanted to keep those states from playing a role in selecting the party's presidential nominee.
"My take on it is [that] a lot of Senator Obama's supporters want to end this race because they don't want people to keep voting," she told CBS affiliate KTVQ in Billings, Mont. "That's just the opposite of what I believe. We want people to vote. I want the people of Montana to vote, don't you?"
Montana holds its primary June 3. The New York senator made similar comments in interviews with stations in Indiana and North Carolina, which hold primaries May 6. ...
Responding to Clinton, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said: "That is completely laughable from a campaign that thought the race would be over on February 5. We have encouraged our supporters to do no such thing and Senator Obama was very clear he supports her carrying on in this race."
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy last week became the first leading Democrat to openly call on Clinton to step aside and cede the nomination to Obama. He said he worried the prolonged nominating battle was strengthening the chances of the Republican nominee in waiting, John McCain.
Since then, Obama and his supporters have said Clinton should stay in the race as long as she chooses, while indicating [that] a lengthy primary battle would not help the party's position in the general election.
Obama has been picking up superdelegates at a rapid clip while Clinton's success with that group has slowed considerably. ...
The drumbeat for Billary to drop out will only grow louder; that Team Billary feels that it has to address the drumbeat is evidence of the inevitable.
But rather than admit defeat, the flailing Team Billary is going to continue to make such outrageously specious claims as that Team Obama doesn't want people to vote.
The majority of the American people already have voted, and the majority of them have voted for Barack Obama. Notes the AP today: "Clinton almost certainly will end the primary season narrowly trailing Obama in the popular vote and among pledged delegates unless the nullified primaries in Florida and Michigan are counted -- an unlikely scenario at best."
Team Billary will only harm the Democratic Party's chances of taking back the White House in November as Team Billary, which appears to be in deep denial over the fact that the candidate whose coronation they thought would be a cakewalk is tanking, tries to eke out a win by twisting arms and seeking every conceivable loophole because the votes aren't favoring them.
Team Billary's tactics remind me of those of Team Bush, the members of which in late 2000 would do whatever it took to take the White House, whether their candidate had actually won the election or not.
A choice between McCain and Billary Cunton in November would be a choice between a Repugnican and a Repugnican Lite -- the difference between the two is so minimal that one might as well not vote at all.
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