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The Real Math Favors Hillary Clinton
by Alessandro Machi
I'll cite statistical facts for you.

Hillary Clinton has been denied a clear consensus victory in Florida.
Barrack Obama purposely removed his name from Michigan when it made no sense to remove his name, specifically to weaken Hillary's claim to the midwest states.
Barrack Obama's 11 highest winning percentage state wins are all caucus state votes.
Caucus states use 88% fewer votes to select each delegate than do the primary states.
Washington state, which had both a caucus vote and a primary vote, favored Barrack Obama in the caucus vote 68% to 31%, but in the non-binding primary held 10 days later, the vote was 50% for Barrack Obama, 49.6 for Hillary Clinton. Barrack Obama gained 53 delegates from Washington State, Hillary Clinton only 25 delegates.
The vote total from the State of California and all the caucus states favor Hillary Clinton, yet Barrack Obama picked up 191 MORE delegates than Hillary Clinton from these two sources.

Barrack Obama and his camp, along with the media, have been suggesting, then demanding that Hillary Clinton quit for the last two months even though the popular vote was closer than any prior democratic race at the same juncture. Their argument was that the super-delegates must not overturn the will of the regular delegates or the popular vote. However, Barrack Obama had 57% of the delegates but only 51% of the popular vote (not counting Florida). If Barrack Obama found it acceptable to have a significantly higher amount of delegates than his own popular vote, then he cannot use that argument to deny Hillary Clinton the nomination through Hillary getting more super-delegates than her popular vote totals.

The constant bombardment of the theme that superdelegates cannot change the outcome as it presently stands is election tampering and could result in a lawsuit by any private citizen upset that it is being done.

Barrack Obama gained a huge and questionable advantage from the caucus vote states and a huge advantage by the disqualification of both Florida and Michigan, how about backing off and letting the superdelegates vote as they wish. Or does Barrack Obama demand that they automatically flip his way as well?
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