Fascinating Democrat Popular Vote Totals:
Obama's Lead Is Almost All in Cook County, Illinois!
Quoting the MahaRushie:
I've got some startling numbers regarding the Democrat primary popular vote. I heard Tony Blankley discussing these recently. Hillary Clinton right now is 700,000 or so popular votes behind Obama. Six hundred thousand of those 700,000 she's behind are in Obama's home state, Illinois. Four hundred thousand of the 600,000 are from Cook County. I want to review these numbers, by the way, as I heard Tony Blankley mention. This is one of the reasons why the Clintons are pressing on. They're pressing on for psychological reasons. They're pressing on for entitlement reasons, and just because they're the Clintons; but there are also some political facts here that are contributing to this. Some people in the Democrat side are proposing all kinds of ways to solve this contretemps, and that is, "Well, let's look at the states with the candidate who has won the most electoral votes." That would be Hillary. "Well, let's look at the popular vote."
That right now would be Obama. Then, of course, the superdelegates, then the credentials committee at the convention. There are any number of ways people are trying to do it. "Fast Eddie" Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania , has said that whoever wins Pennsylvania wins the nomination. Not as far as Obama is concerned. The candidates aren't going to say that. After Pennsylvania, one of them is not going to drop out, but that's what Fast Eddie is trying to do. He's a Clinton supporter, but here are the numbers. Let's look at the popular vote side, since some people are suggesting that could be an arbiter here. Right now, I think, according to -- if I heard Tony Blankley correctly, she's behind 700,000 popular votes, somewhere in that range, and of the 700,000 give or take popular votes that she's behind, more than 600,000 of the popular votes that she's behind are from Illinois, which is Obama's state.
The number is 639,109 popular votes that Obama got over Hillary in Illinois. Now, of those 600,000 that Obama is ahead of Hillary in Illinois , more than 400,000 of the 600,000 are from one county: Cook County , Chicago. What was the beer with the slogan, "The beer that made Milwaukee famous"? Was it Pabst Blue Ribbon? Schlitz? Schlitz, yeah. Pabst Blue Ribbon? It was Pabst? Pabst Blue Ribbon? Yeah. It's Schlitz, okay! Schlitz made Milwaukee famous. Well, Cook County is the county that made election rigging famous. And I'm telling you, 400,000 of the 700,000 popular votes that Obama is ahead by came from Cook County. Now, the Clintons can't point this out. They dare not point this out because it's a Democrat power base, but they know it. They know what's going on. This is one of the reasons why they are staying in. You throw Illinois out of this, and the popular vote, and they're only separated here by a hundred thousand, if you throw Illinois out of this. (laughter) Operation Chaos.
--Rush Limbaugh, April 1, 2008
Here's a RealClearPolitics-eye view of the numbers.
[numbers subject to change after Philadelphia]
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Hillary won the state, but she didn't win Cook County. She won the state, but not the popular vote.
Democrats cried and cried and cried boo hoo when George won the national election in 2000, but didn't win the popular vote! Now you guys want it the other way around.
The party that calls themselves "Democrats" care little about democracy until they're not getting their way. Making rules that are decidedly UNdemocratic, i.e., splitting a states delegates proportionally rather than winner take all... that IS how the general election works, no? Had the delegates been winner take all, you'd have a candidate already, and it would be Barack Obama... he would've dropped out long ago. Refusing to seat delegates in TWO big delegate states... disenfranchising millions of voters-- how hypocritical considering the 2000 election.
What's truly ironic about all this is that it's Democrats fighting Democrats. National polls show McCain beating both for now.
Anything can change between now and November. And Pennsylvania is next big test. No Democrat candidate has ever won the general without winning Pennsylvania. And Barack has been unable to win states with large delegate counts. What does that say about his electability in the general?
No tin foilhats here, Bent. Just a lot of mirth over the democrat[ic] cannibalistic feeding frenzy.