Posted by Jed Lewison on Sun May 25, 2008 at 7:58 PM Pacific

Karl Rove has to be loving this

Bill Clinton today:

Clinton also spoke against bullying superdelegates to make up their minds, saying, "I cant believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out. 'Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to cover this up.'"

Give me a freaking break -- this false claim about electability is based on an analysis by Karl Rove. Is Bill Clinton really asking superdelegates to trust that criminal with an unbiased analysis?

When you actually look at all the national polls with both candidates, it's obvious that Barack Obama is stronger than Hillary Clinton. Here's a chart based on data I posted yesterday:

Every single month this year Barack Obama has done better against John McCain than Hillary Clinton. It's true, he took a big hit in March as McCain wrapped up the nomination and the Jeremiah Wright issue flared up.

But despite that, Barack Obama still did better than Hillary Clinton. Even if you think he's a weak general election candidate, you have to conclude from this data that Hillary Clinton is weaker.

More importantly, this data shows that except for the possible exception of the month of April, it's virtually impossible that Barack Obama has any meaningful problem with whites, at least relative to Clinton.

So when Bill Clinton tells superdelegates that his wife is doing better than Barack Obama in general election polls, it's just not true. So now the question is: how much longer are the undeclared superdelegates going to sit there and keep on taking Bill Clinton's lies?