About those vote totals Sen. Clinton?
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Fresh from her victory in the Pennsylvania primary, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is now claiming to have received more votes than any other Democrat in the presidential race.
“I’m very proud that as of today, I have received more votes by the people who have voted than anybody else, and I am proud of that,†Clinton said at a rally in Indianapolis. “It’s a very close race, but if you count, as I count, the 2.3 million people who voted in Michigan and Florida, then we are going to build on that.â€
Clinton did win both the Michigan and Florida primaries. But the Democratic candidates had also agreed to boycott those contests because they were held in violation of party rules. Obama’s name didn’t even appear on the Michigan primary ballot.
Clinton’s tally, according to an Associated Press account, also excludes all the caucus states.
“I guess there have been a number of different formulations that the Clinton campaign has been trying to arrive at to suggest that somehow they’re not behind,†Obama told reporters traveling with him Wednesday. “I’ll leave that up to you guys. If you want to count them for some abstract measure, you’re free to do so.â€
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well you might make an argument to count florida
because Obama was on the ballot..you cannot make
an argument to count Michigan because Obama was
not on the ballot
taken from an article written by michael barone
But Clinton seems to run stronger than Obama in the industrial (or formerly industrial) belt, running west from New Jersey through Pennsylvania and Ohio to Michigan and Missouri. Obama’s weakness among white working-class voters in the primaries here suggests he is poorly positioned to win votes he will need to carry these states in November. This is not a minor problem—we’re talking about 84 electoral votes.
Obama has also fared poorly among Latino and Jewish voters in every primary held so far. This is of consequence most notably in Florida, which has 27 electoral votes. In 2000, Al Gore won 67 percent of the vote in Broward County and 62 percent in Palm Beach County—both have large Jewish populations. In this year’s Florida primary, Obama lost those counties to Clinton by 57 percent to 33 percent and 61 percent to 27 percent. No Democrat can carry Florida without big margins in Broward and Palm Beach.
Obama cannot win working class voters, hispanics or
jews…and that means clinton is indeed a stronger
general election candidate…these polling numbers
confirm what I have been saying for weeks….but
the democratic party superdelegates are tone deaf,
they are more concerned abou their own re-election
than who is leading the nation