Posted by Jed Lewison on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 6:23 PM Pacific

Obama goes all George W. Bush on us

Obama supporter: We won the caucus even though Hillary won a majority of delegates!

Their argument: when the dust settles, because of a few quirks in caucus procedures which cause rural areas to be overrepresented, Obama will win 13 delegates and Hillary just 12 even though more caucusgoers supporter Hillary.

I've got no way to evaluate the veracity of this claim, however the state party chairwoman did say this:

“I don’t know why they’re saying that,” said Jill Derby, president of the Nevada State Democratic Party, referring to the Obama campaign. “We don’t select our national delegates the way they’re saying. We won’t select national delegates for a few more months.”

This all does sound like the kind of thing James Baker would have said on George W. Bush's behalf in Florida, circa 2000.

Funny stuff, coming from a campaign that claims to pride itself on one person, one vote.

Update: Other Obama supporters are going Dennis Kucinich (of the NH recount) on us. I saw nothing untoward; indeed in my precinct, Hillary lost a delegate to us so that we could be viable.

Update 2: Obama's campaign manager is joining in on the asshattery.

Obama goes all George W. Bush on us

Obama supporter: We won the caucus even though Hillary won a majority of delegates!

Their argument: when the dust settles, because of a few quirks in caucus procedures which cause rural areas to be overrepresented, Obama will win 13 delegates and Hillary just 12 even though more caucusgoers supporter Hillary.

I've got no way to evaluate the veracity of this claim, however the state party chairwoman did say this:

“I don’t know why they’re saying that,” said Jill Derby, president of the Nevada State Democratic Party, referring to the Obama campaign. “We don’t select our national delegates the way they’re saying. We won’t select national delegates for a few more months.”

This all does sound like the kind of thing James Baker would have said on George W. Bush's behalf in Florida, circa 2000.

Funny stuff, coming from a campaign that claims to pride itself on one person, one vote.

Update: Other Obama supporters are going Dennis Kucinich (of the NH recount) on us. I saw nothing untoward; indeed in my precinct, Hillary lost a delegate to us so that we could be viable.

Update 2: Obama's campaign manager is joining in on the asshattery.

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