That’s true. If those primaries did count, Obama would not have had time to overcome Hillary’s lead. In State like Texas, he had long time to work on the lead and if not for Operation Chaos and Immigres, he would have shut the door on her then.
However, its also true that back then Obama was still a new kid on the block. Hillary’s brand name was a huge edge.
Also, Bill Klinton had not tried to deploy the RACE CARD yet. So in Michigan, his numbers would have been lot better. There was a poll that said that if their was a do-over in Michigan, it was tied at 43 each. Obama would probably lose the State due to Elitist/Bitter Gate. However, it won’t be net 300K votes that Hillary claims, after running against thin air.
Finally, Hillary has gotten unmeasureable help from Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Richard Mellon Scaife, Greata Van Susteran, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingrham. Nobody could have thought that the original Vast Right Wing Conspirators, would be doing EVERYTHING in their power to help Hillary Klinton. Strange bedfellows indeed.
As they say in sports, one bad call doesn’t determine the outcome of the game. In the end, it all evens out.
I have never, ever seen such spin as we have seen from Hillary’s flunkies and hanger-ons about the delegate count and the voting. They keep changing the criteria for judging who has the advantage.
At various times, Clinton and her yes men have said that the popular vote is most important, at other times, the total delegate count is what matters, at still other times, delegates won in primary states were more important than those won in caucus states, then delegates won in blue states or swing states counted for more than delegates won in states expected to vote Republican in November. Then we move on to various group of voters, such as the uneducated white voters, the black voters, older voters, etc. etc. Hillary and her apologists are spending too much time with Excel spreadsheets, and moving numbers around trying to find some way that Hillary should be winning, or that somehow is suppposed to persuade super delegates and the public that she is really winning.
It gets old after a while.
Greata Van Susteran = lib