Well, that's one way to get them to shut up about Bush vs. Gore.
And not before time, frankly.
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All it took was the sudden need to explain away a six point loss by this year's Fresh-Faced Outsider Who Will Breathe New Life Into the Race and Get Ordinary People Excited About Politics Again (I should standardize this: God knows the Democrats run one of these poor SOBs into the ground every four years):
Breaking: Obama Wins Nevada
Yes, Obama Won Nevada
...Bowers will no doubt follow this up with A Curse Upon Your Mothers, Ye Mockers! OBAMA WON NEVADA!!!!!, or something else along those lines. Well, everybody needs a hobby; particularly when the alternative is watching your candidate get metaphorically garroted with a silken bowstring...
Read on.
If you're wondering what's going on (Bowers didn't really bother to explain it), what happened was that some delegates were - wait, let me put up the Green Paper summary:
District 1: Clinton 3, Obama 3
District 2: (Washoe) Clinton 1, Obama 2
District 2: (Rural) Clinton 0, Obama 1
District 2: (Clark) Clinton 1, Obama 1
District 3: (Clark) Clinton 2, Obama 2
At-Large: Clinton 2, Obama 1
PLEO: Clinton 3, Obama 3
As you can see, there were a mix of districts with odd and even numbers of delegates. Clinton won districts with even numbers of delegates, but not by enough to make the total 4/2: meanwhile, Obama won the odd-numbered delegate districts, which gave him the majority of delegates in each. Thus, he walks away with a technical one-delegate victory (this is complicated, of course, by the wrinkle that the results are unofficial anyway).
Why does this matter? Well, it doesn't, except in both the above academic sense and a vicious-amusement one. It's hard to blame the Obama acolytes for trying to lipstick the pig: after all, they've got all that Audacity of Hope / Renewal of America / Finding the Grail agitprop to justify. So, talking about how they really and truly did win Nevada if you just turn your head and squint, certainly beats explaining just how it was possible for Senator Hillary Clinton to casually reach out with a fighting spur and disembowel their paladin.
Plus, it's kind of neat to see any member of the Left torch one of their cherished shibboleths (in this case, the essential wrongness of the 2000 election results) for short-term gain. Although I would like to note for the record that there is one major difference: sorry, but Senator Barack Obama simply isn't good enough at politics to justify being compared to us. You see, while we of course were aiming for a popular vote majority, paying attention to the Electoral College was the GOP's back-up plan; which is another way of saying that we didn't win 2000 by accident.
Mind you, issues involving his candidacy are rapidly becoming academic anyway.
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Perhaps Clinton could get David Boies back in to dispute the results.
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This place seriously would not be the same without you
You think Obama's dead in the water I think Clinton's dead in the water. Time will tell but here's the rough sketch of my case:
- Obama is rapidly catching Clinton in the national polls.
- Obama will probably take SC
These things may be enough for Titanic Tuesday. Or they may not be. Time will tell.
"Time and the bell have buried the day, the black cloud carries the sun away."
T.S Eliot, Four Quartets.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Mighty Clinton Machine™ didn't even look at how things were structured, and just poured resources into Clark County.
Some invincible, perfectly political juggernaut.