Spin City..
April 23, 2008 by Dusty
Listening to the Talking Heads on MSNBC last night, I was struck by how they sanitize the results by breaking them down into race and gender:
Per the exit polls, 47% of the Pennsylvania Democratic electorate last night was made up of white women, higher than any other race/gender subgroup. Clinton ended up winning them by more than 30 points, 66%-34%; in Ohio, she won this group, 67%-31%. The question that everyone seems to be asking now is: Why can’t Obama put Clinton away?
So, now…instead of Hillary being DOA, its ‘why can’t Obama deliver the knock-out punch’?
I find myself getting wrapped up in this bullshit, drawn into wondering aloud about Obama too when BAM..it hits me.
Every state hasn’t weighed in yet. Fuck the pundits. It’s all spin. Just like Hillary claiming she is now ahead in the popular vote..if you count FL and MI.
But you can’t count the votes from FL and MI because the only person on both ballots was good old Hillary. The Obama camp is putting the following spin out there to counter Team Hillary’s email this morning:
– Obama leads among pledged delegates, and Clinton will have to win about 70% of the remaining ones to overtake Obama on this measure. — to get within 100 pledged delegates of Obama, Clinton will have to win 57% of the remaining ones — and when looking at the total delegate score (pledged delegates and superdelegates), Obama is about 300 away from clinching the nomination; Clinton, according to NBC’s count, is more than 430 delegates away.
Damn, I am mighty tired of everyone’s spin..its making me dizzy.
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The thing is Obama’s spin is reality. The candidate with the most pledged delegates will be the winner. And that candidate will be Barack Obama. The Clinton campaign keeps changing the goalposts. The media (and Clinton) is just trying to manufacture something that isn’t there. PA is just a blip on the radar really. Obama will more than make up the pledged delegates he lost in PA on May 6th in NC. The fact is, Clinton CANT catch Obama in pledged delegates which means for Clinton to “win” she’d need the superdelegates to override the will of the voters. Why in the hell would they do that? It would destroy the party. It’s not going to happen. I don’t know what Clinton’s real motive is, but she knows she can’t really win.
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The winner will be chosen by the Super Delegates, that is an undeniable fact, anyone who believes otherwise is fooling themselves.What matters to the SD’s is elect-ability and nothing more.
In the end, the popular vote and the pledged delegates will count for nothing..and it was set up that way on purpose decades ago.
I saw Capitol Steps tonight…(the political satire troupe). They did a spoof on superdelegates- wearing superman t shirts no less. Singing about their superpowers & how they can vote any way they please.
The skit wound up saying, it’s not very democratic, yet this is a democracy.
Still this system is so screwed up, I begin to understand why people become a part of the apathetic
crowd. So wrought with bullshit, is this “system”, people tune out.
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