2008 Elections - Democratic Vote Count

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Hillary enters death-with-dignity phase
Published 5/12/2008 by Walter Shapiro at Salon
... that McAuliffe could muster on "Meet the Press" was: "By the end of this process, I believe we will be ahead in the popular vote. I believe that within the delegates it will be within 100." The popular vote argument is plausible, albeit with a bit of ignore-this-but-count-that finagling. If you include the results from the queue-jumping Florida primary but ignore Michigan (where Obama was not on the ballot), Clinton is currently behind in the popular vote from the primaries by 441,000 . A landslide for Hillary in Puerto Rico -- coupled with high turnout (2 million voters ...

Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?
Published 5/13/2008 by Mike Madden at Salon
... by 30 or 40 points; the only question is whether turnout is massive enough to help her cut deeply into his national lead in the popular vote. But the way Obama gives up on a state bears only a vague resemblance to the way Clinton conceded a few dozen to him back in February (a decision that helped put her in a delegate hole that West Virginia won't really help dig her out of). His campaign has field offices in 11 towns, plus a headquarters in the capital, and the backing of three statewide elected politicians, one of whom spent Monday barnstorming the state by helicopter ...

Paul Loeb: Did the Limbaugh Effect Also Flip Michigan?
Published 5/13/2008 by Paul Loeb at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... , fewer than 600,000 voted in the state's Democratic primary, compared to 867,000 Republican votes (and 2.5 million votes for John Kerry in 2004). So Michigan and Florida are among just a handful of states where Republican turnout exceeded that of the Democrats in this year's primaries. The vast bulk of Michigan Democrats stayed home, with way fewer voting than in far smaller states. ...

Each Candidate To Declare Self Winner Tomorrow [Children, All Of Them]
Published 5/19/2008 by Jim Newell at Wonkette
... winner, as his campaign predicts it will have the majority of pledged delegates following Kentucky and Oregon's primaries. He'll be spending the night in Iowa, where he started his Quest. (Circle of Life and all that). Obama is not very smart however, and he — like the DNC — considers the winning number of delegates to be 2,025; Hillary's team has made up a new number, 2,209, that includes Michigan and Florida. And guess what she's doing tomorrow? Declaring a popular vote lead. So tomorrow we will have two declared winners, and no souls, and an Iraq ...

She's in it to spin it
Published 5/22/2008 by Walter Shapiro at Salon
... ferocious march through the mid-February primaries and caucuses. Since that winter wipeout, Clinton has won seven of the last 10 primaries and beaten Obama by a little more than 500,000 votes. But through it all, she has been practicing one-day-at-a-time politics, with any semblance of advance planning deferred to the dictates of daily crises. These days, Hillary is in it to spin it. Her goal is to come out of the primaries (which end June 3 in South Dakota and Montana) with a popular-vote lead over Obama after toting up all the primaries. While this is an entirely symbolic ...

Will Clinton or Obama be voted off the island?
Published 5/31/2008 by Mike Madden at Salon
... Obama leads Clinton by 163,000 votes nationwide, so she needs to win by more than 16 points, with turnout topping 1 million, to make up that ground on Sunday. Next page: ...

Viva Hillary Clinton!
Published 6/2/2008 by Mike Madden at Salon
... , was so low that the win gave Clinton only a small bump in the overall popular vote -- which was the entire rationale for all of her time and energy here. Aides knew by the time they landed in San Juan Friday night (two hours late for a rally in a downtown plaza) that the treasure-trove of votes they once thought they'd find here wasn't likely to materialize. But the final vote total was even less than they'd expected. So as her procedural hopes dimmed in Washington, and her popular-vote hopes were lowered in Puerto Rico, Clinton's final island sojourn blurred into a ...

Who will Obama choose as veep? Nope, you're wrong
Published 6/6/2008 by Walter Shapiro at Salon
... right of presidential nominees is that nobody in America objects. This has been a year when Democrats have been hyper-vigilant about any perceived deviation from voter sovereignty. The 796 unelected superdelegates to the Denver Convention were depicted (until they belatedly broke for Obama) as the tobacco-free Whole Foods heirs to the cigar-smoking bosses in Thomas Nast cartoons. A fetish developed around the legally meaningless total vote calculations from the primaries on the RealClearPolitics Web site . A major justification for democracy lies in the wisdom of crowds, ...