Reply #15: If the Popular vote was going to decide the nomination [View All]

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There would have been no campaign in New Hampshire and Iowa, Wisconsin and even West Virginia. Nobody would be campaigning in Montana or South Dakota this week!

And Obama (as well as Clinton) would have spent more time in large states like his home state of Illinois and California to increase his popular vote total.

No state would have a Caucus. And even among states that held primaries, rules stipulating closed (dems only), partial (independents), or open (everyone) primaries leads to wildly different raw voting totals.

By the way, many states don't even count raw caucus votes. They are estimates. So as soon as you go to the popular vote theory you are actually disenfranchising the voters of many states, the Clinton team pretends to care so deeply about.