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« on: June 06, 2008, 07:27:24 PM »

The site appears to make a big deal out of Clinton winning the West Virginia primary.

It doesn't really seem any different to me than Howard Dean winning the Vermont primary in 2004, after he had dropped out, or John Edwards winning the North Carolina caucus long after John Kerry had clinched enough delegates to have the nomination.

My favorite was how after Indiana and North Carolina they kept acting like Hillary's Indiana victory was the upset of the century and thus she needed to be the nominee now while completely ignoring NC altogether.

Speaking of Indiana. From the PA primary onwards, the exit pollsters asked Democratic primary voters who they would vote for in a matchup between Clinton vs McCain and Obama vs McCain and I was intrigued by what I found:

First of all the total ballots cast were 1,278,268

1. Clinton 73% - McCain 16%. Of that 16%, 41% voted for Clinton in the primary. By my calculation, 0.41 x 0.16 = 0.0656 x 1,278,268 = 83,854 'bogus' votes for Clinton

2. Obama 71% - McCain 18%. Of that 18%, only 12% voted for Obama in the primary. By my calculation, 0.12 x 0.18 = 0.216 x 1,278,268 = 27,611 'bogus' votes for Obama

Given that Clinton beat Obama by 14,198 votes, I'm minded to say that 'Operation Chaos' enabled Clinton to win Indiana

Dave
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