She barely won Indiana and lost big in North Carolina. Now will you admit she’d finished?

Yo, Wellstone–

I checked http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us and found the following info:

CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM) 1,260,937 54.6%
OBAMA, BARACK (DEM) 1,046,822 45.4%

The difference is 9.278%, which is about .25 percent short of being able even to round up to double digits.

Indina: Clinton by 5.3.

HUGE!

Which sums up your position as you’ve shown it here quite nicely, actually. You’re not for Hillary because of any policy or stance or position she has. You’re for Hillary because you’re for Hillary. QED.

Usually, someone has to be, you know, in the lead to have a chance to “put someone away”. Jus’ sayin’.

Waiting for the post-primary spin: Well, Hillary lost by 6 points, but she should have lost by 8 points so the delegates should go to Hillary.

You realize that in primaries, there is no margin of error. Don’t you?

I think huge for Hillary in Indiana, where she’s been outspent in most of the media markets would be anything over 6 points. I predict an 8-point win, 52-44.

I think a tie is within the margin of election error, 3%. Most state election systems function well up to about about a 3% margin, where human error, machine and method differences, local partisan effects, weather, systems overload and failures, and optical-machine vs. paper ballots muddy things up.

NC, where the Obama campaign has been desperately trying to lower expectations because the bar has been set really high for them, would be a victory for Hillary if she can get to Margin of Error plus 2% difference, say a loss of only 52-47%. Remember the Obama campaign has pulled out all the stops in both states, spending a lot of cash in media buys and scheduling event after event this weeknd and today for Obama, Michelle, even the daughters all over the state.

Hillary has sensed a real chance to put Obama away here, and she has dialed up her effort from top to bottom as well.

I watched the Jefferson-Jackson addresses in both states over the weekend and both looked great. I gave the edge to Hillary, though, because I’m a Hillary guy!

Clinton 52% Obama 49%

How close would be a tie?

Obama 65% Clinton 30%

I mean, that’s what it’s been so far, no?

You said this, “Hillary wins Indiana big, she ties in NC…”

Now is your last chance to give us numbers. How big is big? How close would be a tie? How big does Obama have to in North Carolina before you admit he’s won? How close does he have to come in Indiana before you admit it’s over?

This is your last chance to seem rational. Give us real numbers and stick with your convictions.

What Americans think of evolution

Gross.

I’m not sure that’s true. (Without taking the time to find links to them, of course) I think that there is evidence to show that most Americans do believe global warming is a problem and evolution is valid science. They just aren’t the ones making the noise and getting headlines.

It’s like something I did see just the other day. It’s reported that 80% of people are opposed to flag burning. Yikes! But when you really drill into the poll question asked? Turns less than half of them are very or strongly concerned, and less than 12% say it would affect their vote. Twelve may still be a notable number, but it’s a far way from 80, or even most.

And just what consideration have you demonstrated towards anything non-Hillary?

Actually, FWIW, I disagree with you, Zython. I think that Americans are idiots. And this belief makes me really unhappy. How else do you explain Bush’s re-election in 2004, or that the Rev. Wright bullshit and flag pin “issue” have hurt Obama? Or that evolutionary theory is so distrusted by so many Americans? Or that millions of people don’t believe in global warming despite the preponderance of scientific research indicating otherwise?

People are idiots. I just hope that they luck into the right choice in this presidential race.