In today’s First Read, Mark Murray details “Hillary’s Final Pitch.” Her final argument to superdelegates relies on just one thing: electability. She and Bill are also talking a lot lately about the popular vote, but that argument is specious in the extreme, because it depends entirely on the inclusion of votes from the non-contested and uncounted Florida and Michigan primaries. Counting uncounted votes appears to be, well… Clintonesque. [Read more →]

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This will be the first of many posts on the subject of why Barack Obama should not ask Hillary Clinton to join his ticket as the Democratic Party’s Vice-Presidential candidate. Reason Number 1 was articulated in an offhand witticism by the usually serious David Gergen, appearing on CNN on the evening of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries. [Read more →]

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