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	<title>Bang the Drum &#187; convention 101</title>
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		<title>Memo to the Mainstream</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: Mainstream Media Outlets, including the NY Times, Washington Post, Cable Networks and Broadcast News
From:  An Informed Democrat
Re: Your addiction to misinformation, horseracing, and misplaced hope
Please be advised that this metric is worthless.
There is only ONE METRIC that matters when it comes to the nomination for the Democratic Party.
Read this carefully.  The only [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- sphereit start --><p><b>To</b>: Mainstream Media Outlets, including the NY Times, Washington Post, Cable Networks and Broadcast News</p>
<p><b>From: </b> An Informed Democrat</p>
<p><b>Re:</b> Your addiction to misinformation, horseracing, and misplaced hope</p>
<p>Please be advised that <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/24/AR2008052401885_pf.html">this metric</a> is worthless.</p>
<p>There is only ONE METRIC that matters when it comes to the nomination for the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>Read this carefully.  The only metric for measurement is this:  <a href="http://www.demconvention.com/delegate-allocation">DELEGATES</a>.</p>
<p>Let me repeat this one more time:  It&#8217;s delegates. Delegates. DELEGATES.</p>
<p>Not popular vote.  NOT. POPULAR. VOTE.  </p>
<p>Got it?  Good. Then quit writing articles that make that metric seem legit, when it is not.  Quit trying to make it seem like the nomination is being ripped away unfairly from Hillary Clinton.  Because it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s about winning delegates in every state, not just the &#8216;big states&#8217;.  If you need some brushing-up on the rules, the DNC has graciously laid it out in a format that high-school students everywhere understand and could articulate better than you hacks.  Try taking a course in <a href="http://www.demconvention.com/convention-101/">Convention 101</a>.</p>
<p>Thankyouverymuch.</p>
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