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MagsDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:03 PM
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Obama not winning popular vote, so why does he claim he is?
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The only way he can make that claim is if he pretends millions of people didn't vote in FL and MI. But they did. The facts are that HRC is ahead in the popular vote total by about 30K voters.

The facts are Obama is not the choice of most democrats; he is the choice of slightly less voters than HRC.

The facts are that if Obama wants to pretend people in FL and MI didn't vote, regardless of whether delegates will be seated as a result of those votes, he should not count on those people to vote for him should he win the nomination. He has as much told them their votes don't matter, similarly to DUers who claim they don't need HRC voters to win in Nov.

Regardless, can we please stop pretending that people hate HRC and all the world loves Obama? The numbers just don't support that conclusion.
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