Obama 16,983,621And Oregon isn't even finished counting their ballots yet, so those vote totals are incomplete.
49.1%
Clinton 16,431,849
47.5%
The Clinton camp argues that you have to include Michigan in those totals. That is rather Bush-esque if you ask me. All candidates agreed that Michigan's primary wouldn't count as punishment for breaking party rules and pushing the election to an earlier date than agreed. Clinton then left her name on the ballot and now that the nomination is slipping away she's all about adding those numbers to her popular vote totals.
For the sake of argument, let's first take a look at the results of the unofficial, unsanctioned primary in Michigan:
Clinton 328,309Now, let's add those totals, along with Florida's (another state who broke the rules as well, but in which all candidates left their name on the ballot) to the overall national vote:
55.2%
None of the Above 238,168
44.8%
Clinton 17,631,144The results in Michigan's unsanctioned primary showed 45% of the vote going to "none of the above." That's a pretty strong anti-Hillary showing considering the fact that her name was the only one on the ballot.
47.7%
Obama 17,559,843
47.6%
Now, let's say that only a third of those uncommitted votes were actually votes for Barack Obama (I'm low-balling here; I'm sure that well over a third of those votes would have went to Obama had his name remained on the ballot). That would give him 78,000 additional votes - more than enough to overtake Clinton's 71,000 vote lead if we include Michigan's unofficial, unsanctioned primary in the national numbers.
The Clinton team is clearly trying to shove untruths down America's throat. They think that if they keep lying to the press, hammering the lies over and over and over again, that voters will eventually believe what they say as truth. And after 8 years of such escapades by the Bush folks, I think Americans have about had it with the dishonesty and low-life political games.
