Clinton: ‘This Is Nowhere Near Over’
By John M. Broder
May 19, 2008, 11:43 am


MAYSVILLE, Ky. – Adding a new mathematical twist to her case for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Monday that she had not only won more popular votes than Senator Barack Obama, she had won states totaling far more electoral votes.

“The states that I’ve won total 300 electoral votes,” she told about 300 people in a high school gymnasium in Maysville, the birthplace of the actor George Clooney. “The question is who can win 270 electoral votes? My opponent has won states totaling 217 electoral votes.”

As she has in the past, she discounted Mr. Obama’s victories in caucus states and states likely to vote Republican in November, ticking off Alaska, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas and Idaho. “Many of his votes and delegates come from caucus state which have a relatively low turnout,” she said.

“Right now more people have voted for me than have voted for my opponent,” Mrs. Clinton said, without explaining how she reached that arithmetic certainty. “More people have voted for me than anybody who’s ever run for president before.” (Her campaign later clarified this remark saying Mrs. Clinton was talking about more people voting for her than anyone previously in a Democratic primary.)

She added, “This is nowhere near over. None of us is going to have the delegates we need to get to the nomination” after results from Oregon and Kentucky are tallied on Tuesday.

She warned Mr. Obama or his supporters against claiming the nomination based on winning a majority of pledged delegates or some other yardstick before the final primaries on June 3 and before the fate of the Michigan and Florida delegations are settled. Some Obama aides have suggested he will claim the nomination as early as Tuesday after the voting in Kentucky and Oregon, but have backed away from that in recent days.

Whatever Mr. Obama claims, Mrs. Clinton made it clear she is not buying it.

“I’m going to make my case and I’m going to make it until I’m the nominee and we’re not going to have one today and we’re not going to have one tomorrow and we’re not going to have one the next day,” she said. “And if Kentucky turns out tomorrow, I will be closer to that nomination.”

She also dismissed Democratic nominating rules requiring proportional allocation of delegates from primaries and caucuses, rather than the winner-take-all system used by the Republicans.
“If we had same rules as the Republicans

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It is not over until the fat lady sings....

The only solution to this crises is that they hold a new election in Michigan and Florida..

Obam said in 2004 at the Denocratic convention that he wants a country where every one is allowed to vote. There were 19000 spoilt votes in Florida cast by afro_americans.. Obama by not agreeing to a new vote is denying these very people their right to vote..