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Getting them to vote...for McCain

The Associated Press, once a reliable and - dare I say - trustworthy news organisation, has been spewing propaganda all day long. I refuse to link to any of it. You can look it up yourselves, if you really want to...if you enjoy being lied to and manipulated. I, for one, have had enough.

Instead, allow me to direct you to this article from RealClearPolitics. An excerpt:

A new Pew Research Center poll points to a surging tide of fury, especially among white women. As recently as April, this group preferred Obama over the presumptive Republican John McCain by three percentage points. By May, McCain enjoyed an eight-point lead among white women.

What's dangerous for the Democratic Party is that, for many women, the eye of the storm has moved beyond Hillary or anything she does at this point. The offense has turned personal.

They are now in their own orbit, having abandoned popular Democratic Websites that reveled in crude anti-Hillary outpourings -- and established new ones on which they trade stories of the Obama people's nastiness.

McCain, of course, sees an opening here:

Defeat...from the jaws of victory...

Pledged to delegate the winner

We all knew the system was fucked up. This is how fucked up it really is. From Taylor Marsh's website:

Right now, we have one candidate who leads in elected delegates and another who leads in the popular vote. It's almost unprecedented, and no one could have guessed we'd be in this position a year ago. Next to Florida in 2000, this has been the most incredible election contest I have ever witnessed, and it's not even over yet.

In August, it will be the Democratic superdelegates who will decide this contest with their votes at the convention. So...what's the most democratic way to determine the winner here? And, all essential questions of electability aside, who has the democratic moral high ground as the voting comes to a close?

Barack Obama's lead in elected delegates is impressive, but I believe it is an extremely flawed measurement. You see, delegates are malleable. With the right strategy and pressure, they can be changed at will. These changes can occur at local conventions, in DNC meeting rooms, or simply in the brain of an elected delegate with a change of heart. The will of the voters often has nothing to do with it.

Ignoring who prefers which candidate at the moment, who is with me for making the Democratic Primary more...well...Democratic?

The last two states have their say...and nobody cares

The mainstream media is all but ignoring the returns from South Dakota and Montana's primaries tonight, opting instead to crow about how Obama has "clinched" the nomination. The propaganda machine formerly known as the Associated Press is even going so far as to state that Hillary is vying for the Vice Presidential spot. What Orwellian nightmare are we living in that it is acceptable to simply make up the news?

In case you care about what the last people to vote had to say, here are the numbers thus far:

	South Dakota (80% tallied)	Montana (4% tallied)
Hillary Clinton	56%	39%
Barack Obama	44%	58%

I'm sure the numbers for Montana will tighten up as more precincts report their numbers. A four-percent tally is hardly definitive.

I'll have popular vote totals in the near future. I may pontificate on the end of the primary at length at some point, but right now...just the facts.