No. The Clintons have been using the phony criterion of the popular vote because they are trailing in pledged delegates and can’t catch up. They just moved the goal posts and changed the rules of the game. Al Gore and his supporters tried to do the same thing in 2000. Al Gore won the popular vote nationally and should be President.
Phony is the Clintons’ middle name, but it is an interesting case they are trying to make.
The rules of the game are to tally up delegate and superdelegate votes at the convention. Obamaites are saying if the Clintons get the superdelegates to vote for her, when he has one more regular delegates, that that’ll be unfair insider trickery.
But if Hillary can rack up enough of the popular vote to say that no, the superdelegates are actually just righting the injustice of the delegate count not having reflected the majority—and the superdelegates are just as much a part of the process as the regular delegates—then the superdelegates will be bringing about the rightful result.
I really think we want to go against Obama, so I hope she doesn’t succeed.