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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.