HRC Campaign New Metric : Dirt****** McCauliffe "last night we won 90% of the territory"

[grantcart]

On MSNBC with Andre Mitchell

He was talking about winning the vast rural areas and said quoting exactly "last night we won 90% of the territory"


Terry McCauliffe "last night we won 90% of the territory"
So now the new metric is ----- dirt


Now Alaska is more important that New York.


Would somebody with graphic capabilities do a map of the US and show the Clinton campaign that the Obama campaign has indeed won more dirt.

More votes
More delegates
More primaries
More caucuses
More donors
More money
More Governors endorsing
More Senators endorsing
More Reps endorsing

but if you want to get us really angry just don't go there because god dammit WE GOT MORE DIRT.

[Arrowhead2k1]

1. Wow,

They're getting loonier every day!

[Egnever]

2. LOL grant you just

:yourock:

[grantcart]

65. thanks - don't touch our dirt

[goclark]

79. gocart sure does rock nt

[thereismore]

3. OMG they should start a landowners party. nt

[grantcart]

86. no sales tax on lawnmowers

[GodlessBiker]

4. Didn't you know? The votes of dirt are part of the metric now. We've gone from...

...the people decide to the people are part of the process to black people and activists shouldn't really be counted to if we were republicans I would have won and now to let's count all the dirt and see if that gets me over the top.

[JVS]

5. Whose unruly horde dominates the plains?

OBAMA

[Coexist]

6. he is afraid to pause in his speaking because someone might mention

that its over.

Its like if he can just keep talking, yesterday didn't happen.

[RainDog]

7. LOL

more dirt and joe dirt.

[kmla]

41. That's pronounced "deer-tay".

[Cant trust em]

8. Where is Terry's :sarcasm: smilie? NT

[Occam Bandage]

9. Hm. The dirtrace seems pretty close, but I'd edge it for Obama.

(old map, will find newer)

[DB1]

10. KO says Rush Lamo owns the moon so maybe they can count that also.

[Lucky 13]

11. Do you think these surrogates of hers have been drugged?

How can these people continue to spout such DRIVEL?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

12. Mhmm...

[grantcart]

27. And Alaska?

[cascadiance]

39. I don't think the territorial argument measures up nationally...

Clinton vs. McCain:



Obama vs. McCain:



And if you looked at the territories of states that Obama has won vs. Clinton, I think you'd find a similar ratio.

McCauliffe, we're not measuring territory when it is most "convenient" for you. We're talking about winning the nomination, and then the general election where it counts and following the rules on how those elections are counted.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

50. I believe the one I posted was the map from 2004.

I was basicaly trying to make the point that this argument is as stupid now as it was in 2004, when the Republicans used it to argue that their mandate was much larger than was reflected in the results of the election.

[cascadiance]

54. Yes.. Territory arguments are stupid. I was just noting that in a different context...

the same argument they try to use to promote Clinton being the "stronger" candidate in Indiana, could be used against her when looking at the nation as a whole. In other words, as you point out, territorial strength is a useless measure.

[cliffordu]

83. Updated map:

[last1standing]

That is the exact same argument used by bush* in 2000.

Remember all those maps that showed "Red" area dominating "blue" to prove that bush* really won even though Gore had more votes? I think it says a lot about a campaign when it equates land ownership and wealth with voting power.

[Cha]

13. Fuck terry and his Excorist Spinning

head.

[mod mom]

57. I second that! What an ass!

[sabra]

14. reminds me of BushCo claiming more than half of Iraq is safe -

what they don't indicate is their are referring to the provinces that are desert land.

[futureliveshere]

15. Ha ha ha.. That is really ridiculous even for this idiot.

[habitual]

16. "So now the new metric is ----- dirt" funny, funny stuff.... thanx. n/t

[Missouri Girl]

17. You know,

I was so ready and willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, to exit gracefully - even after Kentucky and Oregon. That is more than fair. But, she is just so freakin' clueless. And, this MO of continuing to pick at white versus black voting and other key points is really starting to tick me off. "I'm better". "I can get whites and hispanics."

OK, now she just brought up the RFK assassination as the justification for her continuing in the race. What a horrible loser she is.

I'm done with her completely. I want the Obama campaign to go "Hardball" on her and pull out all the stops. If she won't face reality on her own, someone's going to have to make her face it.

[ekwhite]

37. She brought up the RFK assassination as a reason to continue?

Is that true, or did you mistake what she said? I find that hard to believe, even for her.

[robertpaulsen]

52. I believe the correct context was in reference to RFK's California victory in June.

Not the assassination. I think that's why the mods locked that thread, because of the incorrect inference.

[hfojvt]

18. the dirt always votes rightwing

since it is dumber than a rock. Haven't you ever seen the email showing that Bush won way more dirt than Gore and so the election didn't really overturn the will of the majority of the voters. Look at all the square miles that Bush won. We need to change the laws to make it one vote per acre instead of one person one vote. I agree with this, since I own 5.5 acres. I may need to check my figures though, that may be a lower percentage of the total US acreage than my vote is of the total US vote.

[Labors of Hercules]

19. Holy shit! We have suddenly time warped to 1803...

Or is there some sort of "voter rights to landowners" thing in IN I don't know about? :shrug:

[rucky]

20. It's the President of the Corn

"He wants you, too, McCauliffe"

[Fire_brand]

21. Fine, apply that standard to the entire country

[The Doctor.]

22. I just heard him say that a little bit ago. I laughed my ass off.

Looking for superglue now.

[grantcart]

34. should have put in some kind of warning for keyboard safety

I have to go to a sales meeting and am going to be laughing the whole time


BTW was it just me or was Andre Mitchell just chuckling non stop through the whole time - just barely supressing it?


Can't wait to get the video

[goclark]

70. I want that video too~ K and R

[damntexdem]

23. They're right -- and that means that HRC should be put out to pasture!

And they've certainly shown that they're the champions at dishing the dirt and slinging it as mud.

;-)

[progressoid]

24. 1 Acre - 1 Vote

[PVnRT]

25. Too bad acreage doesn't determine elections

This is the same argument I heard right-wingers use after 2000. "Look, we won more counties! You just won cities!"

[myrna minx]

26. Ah, so landowners are the new standard.

I was really willing to give her the benefit if the doubt that she would bow out gracefully, maintain her dignity and do so for the good of the party, but she has proven me wrong and Rachel Maddow right. I should never hedge my bets against Rachel.

[TheWraith]

28. Please tell me this is a joke.

Somebody actually posted a joke like this, positing square mileage as the new goalpost, last night. Please tell me this is just a really clever expansion.

[grantcart]

31. I swear that he said that

truthfully it wasn't his main point but he slipped it in really really fast.

wait till we get the video during the whole time Andre Mitchell was just chuckling along and I am not kidding.


She did raise the loan issue and where the money is coming from but she was chuckling when she said it so it didn't really sting

[Ichingcarpenter]

29. He was talking about Joe Dirt

[JackintheGreen]

30. More dirt, more worms

McCauliffe just want to be with his own kind.

[onenote]

32. gotta focus on getting this vote:

[amb123]

33. Oh, so only land owners can vote eh?

Hey let's bring back primogenture and entail (only the first-born son can inherit an estate) why don't we?

:sarcasm:

Terry, you've gone off the deep end.

:tinfoilhat:

[robertpaulsen]

35. Are you fucking kidding me?! Please tell me this is a joke.

:wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow:

I cannot believe that Camp Clinton has moved the goalposts this far into the land of Delusional Make-Believe. I cannot believe that their desperation could sink to such depths of insanity. Before yesterday it used to piss me off. Now I can honestly say I feel sorry for them.

Please tell me this is a joke. Camp Clinton cannot be this pathetic. Can they?

[grantcart]

36. see # 31 I have made up stuff before but I couldn't make this shit up

[robertpaulsen]

47. Wow. Just wow. Your picture of Baghdad Bob is completely appropriate.

You might also include a picture of that knight without limbs in Monty Python and the Holy Grail shouting, "I'll bite your legs off!" Camp Clinton is still living with the delusion that "none shall pass" her, with Terry McAuliffe as Head Cheerleader.

I'll say it again: they no longer anger me. I truly feel sorry for them and will continue to feel sorry for them until she confronts reality and drops out.

[FatDave]

43. They have now achieved self-parody

WTG, Team Hillary! When I can't tell your actual statements from something that might be found in The Onion, I can only conclude that there's something hilariously right in the world.

[robertpaulsen]

48. I'm reminded of the Robin Williams joke about Khaddafi.

"It's a line in the sand! You cross it you die!"

"Alright, you cross this line, you die!"

"This line you die!"

"Alright, you knock on my door, I'm not coming out. Naaaah!"


Terry McAuliffe has just drawn The Mother of All Goalposts.

[ClayZ]

38. She wins where there are no people?

I caught that, too. :crazy:


Beyond the pale!

[grantcart]

78. did you notice that Andre was chuckling through the whole thing?

[Touchdown]

40. You forgot Poles! He forgot Poles!!!!!

Telephone Poles, that is.:evilgrin:

[long_green]

42. if he said that, the BO campaign should be thanking him

it's a priceless laugh line that can make the Clinton campaign a laughingstock. Get people to laugh, then look at the numbers, and the last bit of air will go out of HRC balloon.

[krispos42]

44. Okay, let's see if this is true or not

Using this map, and mentally shading Indiana and North Carolina the appropriate shades of green and purple...






Okay, Clinton's states and area in square miles:

California: 163,696
Arizona: 113,998
New Mexico: 121,589
Oklahoma: 69,898
Arkansas: 53,179
Tennessee: 42,143
Indiana: 36,418
Ohio: 44,825
Pennsylvania: 46,055
New York: 54,556
New Jersey: 8,721
Massachusettes: 10,555

Total: 765,633 square miles, if I did my math right.




Obama:
Alaska: 663,267
Texas: 268,581

Oh, wait, those two states in total have 931,848 square miles.

931,848>765,633

Obama wins.




What's next, calculating the total mass of Clinton voters versus Obama voters?

[crankychatter]

55. I weigh 250.... shouldn't I be worth a vote and a half? n/t

:-)

[Willo]

77. You do know you have to include FL & MI

I'm just saying, if you're gonna play the game you gotta play by the rules.

[anigbrowl]

45. Well you need dirt to make mud...um...

[phrigndumass]

46. Rec'd, of course

"We got more dirt" ... priceless! :rofl:

Reminds me of the repubs coloring whole counties that they won, showing lots of red space because the less populous counties had more territory.

[grantcart]

62. CNN is going to have to come up with different graphics for Kings magic board

[Major Hogwash]

49. He must be counting the airspace over Disneyland and Disney World.

Because he has turned her campaign into an amusement ride.

"The Roller Coaster With No End" - get on now, because this thing NEVER stops!
We go up, we go down, we go up, we go down, we go round and round, do it again, forever!

I wonder what Terry's bowling score is.

[grantcart]

68. wonder who took his flag pin

[robertpaulsen]

51. Will McAuliffe be one of Keith Olbermann's Best Persons or Worst Persons tonight?

Terry McAuliffe - Best Goalpost Mover: WE GOT MORE DIRT! WE GOT MORE DIRT!

[robertpaulsen]

66. I'm at work. Did KO mention McAuliffe's dirt?

:shrug:

[grantcart]

67. nope darn it

[uponit7771]

53. Wow,

[grantcart]

64. thats what I thought

[crankychatter]

56. the last demographic - Only the areas with no voters on them count n/t

:-)

[Dems to Win]

58. Finally, Alaska gets the respect it deserves.

Obama won Alaska.

OBAMA GOT MORE DIRT!

[grantcart]

63. You can screw with our rules but don't touch our dirt

[FlyingSquirrel]

59. Hmmm contesting for "Dirtiest" campaign...

Oh, the irony.

:evilfrown:

[robertpaulsen]

60. LOL! "There is a dirt threshold that must be crossed".

"Certainly Senator McCain has crossed that threshold."

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[grantcart]

61. lol

[dansolo]

69. And all of those areas will be voting for McCain

Does he really think that anyone buys this bullshit anymore?

[goclark]

71. HC&Co are a piece of DIRTy Work

You can't make this stuff up folks ...they are a piece of work.


DIRTy Work.

[Patsy Stone]

72. Anyone know

how the Mojave Desert voted?

[grantcart]

73. Gravel by a landslide

not often I can get two puns in a single line

[Patsy Stone]

75. ...

[TexasObserver]

74. Soylent Green is PEOPLE! Not acres.

Good Lord, is there anything less rational than using sparsely populated areas as your definition of winning a contest?

Ain't prairie dogs voting in these elections.

[grantcart]

76. hmmmmmmmmm

is there anything less rational than using sparsely populated areas as your definition of winning a contest?



Yes there is - basements - and I am so glad you asked.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=388&topic_id=4990&mesg_id=4990

[Spazito]

80. ROFL, I knew about

the race card
the gender card
the class card


but



damn



I didn't know the DIRT card even existed till Terry told me!


I wonder how many other cards exist I don't know about?

[grantcart]

81. see 76 for the basement card

[Spazito]

84. LOL, damn, you are channeling Terry now, dangerous stuff ya know!

The irony is, I am not so sure they won't go there next! The deck will keep expanding, of that I have NO doubt! Thanks for the tip on the thread, loved it!

:rofl:

[cliffordu]

82. I don't even think 'tool' encompases what McAuliff really is....

Utensil, Maybe??

[madrchsod]

85. did you mean "So now the new metric is fucking dirt" ?

[hokies4ever]

87. Obama might win the 'land area' argument

I made a similar post yesterday calling it something like the 'square milage of counties won' metric, but came to the conclusion that Obama might actually win this new metric. He won Alaska and either won or is favored to win a lot of those western states with low populations. Hillary's campaign doesn't even bother to check to see if they win these new metrics that they're proposing.

History will not judge her campaign kindly. Everything they are saying will be documented for the books. Everybody who has written a book about Hillary Clinton must love her campaign, because it just gives them more to write about in the future.

[bhikkhu]

88. Truly funny.

Its not about votes or delegates anymore, the new democracy measures its support in square feet. Thanks grant, several laughs were had today.

[grantcart]

89. yr welcome

but have you noticed that its kind of addictive


you need to see this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=388&topic_id=4990&mesg_id=4990

[eridani]

90. Geez, wasn't that what Bush supporters said in 2004?

McAuliffe could do with a good napalm enema if you ask me.

[grantcart]

91. Terry McCauliffe where are you we need another life

How's your book deal shaping up - understand Wolfson's already inked the deal