Clinton wins imaginary popular vote!

Clinton is now claiming that she's winning the popular vote. Now I know some of you might be saying to yourselves; "Wait a second! I just went on RealClearPolitics.com and Clinton's still down by more than half a million votes."

Don't feel bad, a lot of people have the same crazy misconception that the popular vote is derived by adding up all the votes cast in certified primaries.

This is how the popular vote is actually counted:

(1) Take the popular vote from all the primaries recognized by the DNC. (Obama: 14,751,703, Clinton: 14,141,255)

(2) Add in Florida - where both candidates pledged not to campaign.

(3) Add in Michigan - where Obama wasn't even on the ballot.

(4) And now the fun part:

take out votes cast in Iowa

Washington

Maine

and Nevada.


And then you get Clinton: 15,116,688 Obama: 14,993,833.

It all makes perfect sense if you think about it...