Remember when Clinton used to talk about the role of the superdelegates and how important they were and how they were put in place to exercise judgment and they were the party elders and so on? Remember that? She never does that anymore. It's just the strangest thing.

2025, here we come...

There are no supers in the general to reward him for getting thumped by 40.

Oh wait, this is where Terry and Wolfie come out and say that polls don't matter, right?? We don't pay attention to polls, damn you! We never have!

Wolfie will be too busy spinning how Haim Saban, a very rich Clinton supporter, offered a $1 million bribe to superdelegates to support Clinton!

Olbermann's gonna have a field day tonight!

testing...

Hillary has Obama just where she wants him.

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/J/7/2/call-it-a-draw-jd0512d.jpg

I have it on good authority that the Clinton campaign plans to present to the DNC rules committee on May 31 legal testimony they contend proves that the state constitutions of Florida and Michigan are the only two among the 50 states that can withstand legal scrutiny. They will argue since the U.S. has only two legal states that votes from only those two primaries should be counted.

Should that argument be shot down, their contingency is to attack mathematical theory, primarily the theory of addition. Sources say the Clinton campaign will argue that numbers arrived at through cumulative addition are suspect because early mathematicians never intended for multiple numbers to be added to arrive at any cumulative sum. In putting this argument together, the campaign consulted with a blue-ribbon panel of strict constructionist judges who assert that the U.S. Constitution is a “dead” document. Similarly, the campaign will argue that the principle theory of addition was never intended to lead to such “abominations” as multiplication and division.

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Obama/Olbermann '08!

Sinecure Michelle is out campaigning and hopes to be First, um, Lady.

She's fair game. Does Barack think she too dainty to defend herself? The little woman?

Five a day, keeps Hillaryland at bay.

Here's another interesting story that isn't making it way onto TMP.

From ABC News:

Rove's Latest Electoral Maps Have Clinton Stronger Than Obama Against McCain

May 19, 2008 1:48 PM

Electoral maps put together by the consulting firm helmed by Karl Rove, and obtained by ABC News, show Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, to be a stronger general election candidate in a hypothetical general election match-up against Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., than Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois.

States are allocated in Rove's exercise based on an average of public polls, which many pollsters would tell you is a rather unscientific way to look at the data.

Still, for political junkies the information is interesting.

In the first map from Karl Rove & Co., McCain leads Obama in a hypothetical match-up, winning states totaling 238 electoral votes to Obama's 221 electoral votes.

There are 538 total electoral votes. At least 270 are needed to win the presidency.

The trend is positive for Obama -- he is up 14 electoral votes from May 11, and McCain is down 13 electoral votes.

The map shows McCain winning Florida, New Hampshire, West Virginia and Wisconsin. States with 79 electoral votes -- Connecticut, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, and Virginia -- are toss-ups, within a margin of error of +/- 3 points.

In the hypothetical Clinton-McCain match-up, Clinton leads with 259 electoral votes to McCain's 206 electoral votes.

States totaling 73 electoral votes -- Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and New Mexico -- too close to call.

Clinton, too, is trending upwards, with a gain of 11 electoral votes since May 11.

The big differences between Clinton and Obama, beyond the her larger number:

Clinton would make competitive some states that Obama would lose -- such as Missouri and New Hampshire -- and she would win others outright, such as Arkansas, Florida, Ohio and West Virginia.

On the other hand, McCain would handily win beat Clinton in some states that Obama made competitive, such as Colorado, North Dakota, and Virginia. Some states that Obama would win, such as Minnesota and Nebraska -- Clinton would lose to McCain.

Occasionally this election cycle the electoral maps of Karl Rove & Co. have reared their heads. In March, McCain adviser Mark McKinnon was spotted holding some of these maps, as reported by Texas Monthly.

If you'd like entertainment of the head-exploding kind, check this pro-Hillary blog. Wow.

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/sunday-sweeties/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMIwx6bGvs

Obama is a HUGE mistake.

Not a republican...

and I am staying right here !! YOU go elsewhere!

Memorial Day is too close a timeline for Clinton and McCain to get their proposal passed in the Senate and House and to Bush's desk. It's just really too late. I am really going to miss saving $1.80 to $2.20 a week. Just like the economy boosting rebate from the Feds: A whole $50 a month--hardly a tank of gas. I really appreciate the stimulus package. Can't wait for "don't really know much about the economy/Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" McCain to become president. If that should transpire, I shall become an ex-patriot.
As a footnote: What the hell is Hillary still doing in the Democratic primary? I believe everyone is entitled to their vote, but I'm really tired of the country ignoring reality. The unreality of WMD and Hillary's chances of becoming president. I'm kicking myself for not investing in Halliburton in 2000 and keeping w/ tech stocks.
Footnote #2: Did you take note of Cindy McCain's selling off $2 million in securities that had ties to the Sudan?

Come on, Lynn Woolsey, it's yer turn next.