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  • Slate V: Hillary's Last Ad

    Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 11:40 PM By Christopher Beam

    Hillary Clinton released a new TV spot on Sunday touting the 17 million people who have voted for her in the Democratic primaries. That's "more than any primary candidate in history," the narrator tells us. Well, sort of. Over at Slate V , we've got a Read More...

  • The Popular Vote Chronicles: Shifting on "Uncommitted"

    Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:19 PM By Christopher Beam

    On a conference call just now, Clinton adviser Harold Ickes articulated the campaign’s position on Michigan’s "uncommitted" delegates: Obama shouldn’t get them. Over at Politico , Avi Zenilman points out how this would hinder Obama’s attempts to win the Read More...

  • How To Legitimize the Popular Vote

    Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:53 PM By Christopher Beam

    Now that we’ve laid out Hillary Clinton’s logic for how she’s winning the popular vote, it’s worth examining whether and how she can turn this from a tenuous argument into a compelling case. Right now, superdelegates aren’t buying it, most likely because Read More...

  • Fun With Popular Vote Numbers

    Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:20 PM By Christopher Beam

    Last night, Clinton announced that she’s "winning the popular vote." It’s a claim she’s been making since Pennsylvania , but now that Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates, it’s really her last plausible argument for the nomination. As this blog Read More...
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