Hahahahahahahahahaha.

This is a riot.  PolWatchers, ladies and gentlemen:

A key to U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s strategy to lock up the Democratic presidential nomination is surpassing U.S. Sen. Barack Obama in the total popular vote, a top campaign aide said Thursday.

Obama currently leads Clinton in total pledged delegates, number of states won and the popular vote.

McAuliffe said driving up the number of voters who show up in those [remaining] states, especially ones that favor Clinton in early polls, such as Kentucky, West Virginia and Puerto Rico, is a big party of the strategy.

“This is why Kentucky is critical for us. We not only have to have a very good win in Kentucky but a very good turnout,” McAuliffe told Kentucky reporters on a conference call Thursday. “I firmly believe … by the end of this process, we will have moved ahead in the popular vote.”

This, like the bit with Mark Penn earlier today, seems to miss the point:  that’s nice that, if those were the rules, you would be winning, but those aren’t the rules.  They just aren’t.  And no amount of wishing is going to make that go away.  (Most of) Her team knew the rules coming into the election, and they were whooped–counting on the racists out in the hills who care that you take shots and won’t turn their guns over to the godless liberal hippie homos to put you over the top in your make-believe metric won’t make it any better.

[PolWatchers]

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