Hillary Clinton, Ex-Arithmecrat. Enough with the fake metrics.

[tabasco]

As Clinton's prospects dim, her preferred metrics grow more rococo. The Democrats, Clinton now argues, can't afford to nominate someone who can't carry the big, industrial states that matter in the Electoral College. Never mind that, after the 2000 election, Clinton said the Electoral College should be abolished (she never followed through, alas), or that in the midst of an economic recession, it's hard to imagine Clinton supporters in hard-hit places like Ohio and Pennsylvania voting for the party in power. Obama's on the ropes, Clinton argues, because he spent three times as much as she did and still lost Pennsylvania to her by 10 points. But that's just another way of saying that Obama's campaign is flush and Clinton's is strapped for cash. And anyway, as long as we're being arithmetic, Clinton did not win Pennsylvania by the much-fetishized target margin of 10 points. She won it by 9.2 points, which rounds down to nine, not up to 10. Hillary's weirdest metric is that, if you count the primaries in Michigan (where Hillary was the only major candidate on the ballot!) and Florida (where neither Hillary nor Obama campaigned), she has won more primary votes than any previous Democratic nominee. So what? The Democratic National Committee refuses to seat the delegates from these states because they didn't follow party rules (a position Clinton had no problem accepting back when she had much more clout to change it; see "Fair-Weather Wolverine" by S.V. Dáte).

http://www.slate.com/id/2189812/

Hillary's Convoluted Arithmetic

Poor Hillary, no matter how hard she tries and no matter which way she turns them, the numbers just don’t add up. An article in Slate today goes through the twisted arithmetic and the constantly shifting goal line that the Clinton campaign is trying to cross, as well as the ever-moving standard by which they measure success.

http://www.chron.com/commons/persona.html?newspaperUserId=desperado&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3AdesperadoPost%3A8cf5e319-bdaf-4cf7-a4e2-747f898b26b9

[TwilightGardener]

1. I'm still waiting for the major news outlets to report that she only won by single digits...

waiting...

[L0oniX]

2. She's obviously using Bush's fuzzy math. n/t

[PA Democrat]

3. A Stephanie Miller listener coined a term to refer to Hillary's math- "hillogical"

[tabasco]

4. Someone else posted that she is in it to pay the bills at this point.

I think that might be true.

Donors can be sure that the money they send her will help Hillary pay herself back for the loan.