Hillary Wins the Nomination with 600,001 Votes — from Bill

 by Joseph BH McMillan  

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Each elected delegate is backed up by approximately 6,000 votes, while each Super Delagate is backed by . . . Bill Clinton.

In 2004 there were estimated to be about 16,800,000 voters in the Democratic Primaries and Caucuses.

There are 3,253 delegates elected in the Democratic Party, the others being those Super guys and gals, some 796 of them.

So if we do a little rounding to simplify the Math, let’s work on 3,000 elected Delegates, and say 18 million voters, just to balance out the increased turnout produced by Obama’s phenomenal personality.

That means that each elected delegate is backed up by approximately 6,000 votes.

Now since the Super Delegates have the same say (or more) at the Convention, if it gets to that, that means that Bill Clinton, himself being pretty Super, gets to represent some 6,000 non-existent voters.

But since he has great influence on other Super Delegates, them owing him favors and all, and many of those chums having already thrown in with Hillary, lets say he controls, at a conservative estimate, another 100 Supers, that would mean he is walking around armed with some 600,000 "voters" – all non-existent, of course – but we must remember, each vote counts, especially Bill’s votes.

That means that Bill gets the equivalent of 1 vote for every 30 votes cast in the Democratic Primaries and Caucuses.

So for every 30 votes Obama manages to get for himself, he also gets an extra vote for Hillary. Therefore, if Obama manages to really enthuse the Democratic base, and say 30 million attend this fiasco, that would mean good ol’ Bill can cast something on the order of 1,000,000 votes – all by himself (assuming, of course, that he only has 100 Supers in his pocket).

But lets assume that even his 1 million votes don’t get Hillary over the top – what then?

Well, Bill has something else up his sleeve.

Since the total delegates (common and Super) come out at an odd number, Bill would effectively have the deciding vote if the Delegate count was equal – assuming that equality is a notion familiar to Democrats.

And there is even a fall-back position for Bill – the number of Super Delegates is still to be finalized. I expect Bill is pretty busy, as I write, tendering some "advice" on that issue.

So even in the unfortunate event that Bill’s million votes, and his grubby little paws clutching the casting vote, can’t get Hillary over the hill (which it seems is about the only place she is likely to get with Bill), then the Dems will just have to appoint the right sort of Super Delegates – those who understand that Hillary is willing to be woken at 3am in a crisis; like letting Bill back into the WH.

I wonder why the Dems bother with the "Democratic" – why not simply call it "The Party?"

Just a pity that the voters have to be screwed! But better for Hillary, I expect, the voters than the interns!

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