Obama won 15 states by the Margin Hillary Clinton won WV by.

[Boz]

Why is there even an ability to ignore that and pretend that this mattered as a loss?

Can some one explain this to me?

Why does it matter that Hillary Clinton won by this margin or even this delegate division?

[datopbanana]

1. It's recent. People short attention span.

[quantass]

3. Precisely....this is expected because it is recent memory..no one remembers last weeks news...

let alone months back.

[ShortnFiery]

2. Simply because "The Clintons" are considered Political Royalty ... they get umpteen "mulligans"

:eyes:

[depakid]

4. Don't think anyone's ignoring it- but the fact that this demographic is voting against him

-and not neccesarily for Clinton portends problems for the GE in key states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and possibly Michigan.

That should give pause to anyone who doesn't want a Republican in the whitehouse until 2013.

[EFerrari]

5. His losses in OH and PA were single digits.

I don't know enough about MI to comment. He didn't run there.

So the narrative that this demographic is sizable and is voting against him seems to be mostly hype.

[depakid]

6. They were still sizeable losses- to Hillary of all people

The only thing that gives me any hope of carrying those states and hence the GE is having the youth vote counter defections from the blue collar vote- and potentially winning in a squeeker.

[EFerrari]

8. People also vote for winners. If his campaign continues

to build momentum, Democrats will get behind him. And, the Republicans are looking to lose big this year. I think we'll be fine.

[Summer of 41]

7. Vetted since + caucus

= anti-democratic

[sandnsea]

9. Since she claimed victories in FL & MI

her entire campaign has been nothing but one delusion after another. It's as bad as the run-up to the war. I don't know what is wrong with the people in this country. No wonder it was so easy to sell everybody a war. I'll never wonder how the holocaust happened again either. People who want a particular outcome for personal reasons will believe anything.

[tritsofme]

10. I'm sure the bulk of those states were unrepresentative caucuses.