Johathan Alter: Popular Vote Poison - How Hillary's latest math hurts the party

Give credit where it's due: Hillary Clinton has shown grit and determination in finishing out the race. She has proved herself a strong campaigner. And in the week since West Virginia, she has stopped the cheap shots that had marred her campaign this year.

But Clinton has continued with one claim that could have a pernicious effect on the Democrats' chances in November. While she knows that the nomination is determined by delegates, Hillary insists on saying at every opportunity that she is winning the popular vote. And she has now taken to touting the new HBO movie "Recount," which chronicles the Florida fiasco of eight years ago. Everyone can agree that the primary calendar needs reform. But popular-vote pandering is poison for Democrats. For a party scarred by the experience of 2000, when Al Gore received 500,000 more popular votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency, this argument is sure to make it harder to unite and put bitter feelings aside.

Oh, and it's not true.

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The shorthand many Clinton supporters are already taking into the summer is that she won the popular vote but had the nomination "taken away" (as Joy Behar said on "The View") by a man.

What a helpful message for uniting the Democratic Party.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/138109

why Hillary wants to disenfranchise the Democrats in Iowa, Maine, Nevada, and Washington. They followed the rules and they expect their voices to be heard. Include IA, ME, NV, and WA in your popular vote totals Hillary!

people are starting to believe her without looking at the facts (only one on the ballot in MI, not counting caucus states). If her supporters start to believe it was taken from her because she was a woman even though she had the most votes, it could ruin the party.

Thanks Hill.

And shoot down her fantasy. Gore especially since he was the victim of the Florida fiasco. He could point out how Hillary's tactics about Florida and Michagan are more like the con job the Repukes did to us in 2000.

He was a good man until that bus took him out.

from Illinois who thinks lying is better when she's losing and anytime really.

that it was unthinkable that the Democrats would not count the millions of votes in Florida (paraphrasing). Hasn't he been paying attention?