Here and There

Clinton suckups love to point to the fact, when they’re not bashing the so-called states that don’t matter, that Barack Obama loses to Hillary Clinton in bigger states that will be in play in November.

Setting aside the old, tired, continued Democratic insult to the states Obama has won, I’d like to know exactly how it can be that simply because Obama lost (to Clinton, who, although often a quasi-Republican herself, is not John McCain) in those states, he would lose them against McCain in November.

Are you lost, too?

Their logic goes like this: See? Obama lost this future battleground state against Clinton, and so how can he win against McCain in November?

Logic for the rest of us: While it’s certainly significant that Obama lost in some potential battleground states in the primaries (not by very much, comparatively, in most cases*), it in no way frames how he’ll do in November against McCain.

So, Howard Wolfson, Harold Ickes, hell, even Mark Penn, can you please stop insulting our collective intelligence? Thanks, guys.

* The average margin in contests won by Clinton, not including Texas, Michigan and Florida, is 14 percent. The average margin in contests won by Obama, not including Texas, 28 percent. These and other fascinating statistics will be available in an upcoming post.