There’s a slow-motion scam being perpetuated by the Clinton campaign and I must speak out.
\nThe short version: Barring a complete Obama meltdown, you know, I know, and the American people know they can’t win on elected delegates. So you’re increasingly hearing them talk about the popular vote. If Hillary wins the popular vote, they argue, she should be our candidate. And that sounds like a pretty reasonable position. We all went through Florida in 2000. Electoral College? What a crock! Democracy is about one person one vote. If she wins the popular vote, little d democrats should insist she be the nominee, right?
\nThe problem with that canard is that while you can argue “one person, one vote, electoral college, grrr” in the general, the nomination process is different. As we all know way too well, some states caucus, some states run primaries. As we also know, caucusing, like ’em or not, take a much bigger time commitment than pulling the lever in a primary, so the turnout numbers are dramatically depressed.
\nIf the caucus states all have substantially lower vote turnout percentages than their primary bretheren, selecting a nominee by counting the total votes makes votes in a primary state worth a lot more than votes in a caucus state. How do fix that problem with the math? We find a neutral measure that assigns a total # of votes to each state based on their relative size. And yeah, we call those neutral measures “delegates.” That’s why, in the nomination process, delegates are a much truer measure of “popularity” than the popular vote.
\nI know the popular vote is popular. We should invite it to parties. We should buy it drinks. We should ask it to sign our yearbooks. We just shouldn’t use it to choose our nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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