Clinton's New Math - More Imaginary Numbers

Indiana senator, Clinton supporter and vice presidential hopeful, Evan Bayh, last weekend made the most ridiculous assertion:

He suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won.

"So who carried the states with the most Electoral College votes is an important factor to consider because ultimately, that's how we choose the president of the United States," Mr. Bayh said on CNN's "Late Edition."

I never thought I'd agree with Fox News' Neil Cavuto, but this is one time I do:

Of course, the difference is electoral votes don't count until a general election. And there's no automatic guarantees that states won in a party contest are the same states won in a general contest.

But the argument is fascinating.

Suddenly electoral votes matter before they're even tallied.

Even before the popular votes, which already have.

The Clinton campaign just keeps searching for new measures of why they should continue to waste the party faithful's time and money by staying in a race they have no reasonable chance of winning.

They've tried the popular vote argument; problem is they trail in the popular vote count whichever way you slice it.

They've tried the "big states" argument, as if Obama wasn't as capable of winning the big states in question in the general election, or even picking up a state like Texas that Clinton has no hope of winning, but where Obama is polling neck and neck with McCain in.

They've tried the "small red states don't count" argument, ignoring the fact that all states should matter.

Now they're trying to claim that we should be counting electoral votes. You see, Clinton beat Obama in California, so she's claiming she wins the 55 electoral votes from California. Never mind the fact Obama leads McCain in polling there 54% to 39%, better than Hillary's 51% to 39% margin.

Hello!?

This game they keep playing is more than getting old, it is damned annoying. The only measure that counts in a primary race is the delegate count. Clinton claims that the penalties against the Florida and Michigan delegations for running early primaries has disenfranchised voters in those states. So what does her camp do now? They disenfranchise every delegate already determined by suggesting those in the states she didn't win don't matter, only the electoral vote weight of the state matters.

The Democratic primary process is a proportional allotment system. If she wanted a winner take all primary she should have run as a Republican.

Then again, it is becoming increasingly hard to tell whether she isn't already doing so.