Posts Tagged ‘ Popular Vote ’

Overly Over (Almost)

Jun 2nd, 2008 | By Stirling | Category: Uncategorized

I have been yelling and screaming (mostly to myself) about how ludicrous Hillary’s “popular vote” claims are. A fair estimation (Iowa, Nevada, Washington & Maine haven’t released any popular vote totals) puts Obama up by something like 44,605 votes. Granted, that’s not a terribly huge margin, but it does shoot a pretty big whole in [...]



Why is the popular vote so unpopular?

May 22nd, 2008 | By Stirling | Category: Uncategorized

Hillary Clinton wants you to know that she has won the popular vote. She has even gone as fas as to evoke Al Gore by saying that we Democrats should not allow an election to be snatched away from the candidate who has won the popular vote. This would be a provocative argument if it [...]