In Ellen interview, Hillary corrects herself: 'We already won Michigan'

[tekisui]

During an exchange with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton mixed up two states whose delegates she desperately needs to regain her once-all-but-certain spot as her party's nominee.

DeGeneres appeared via satellite from her Burbank, Calif., studio at a Clinton fundraising stop in Washington Monday. Clinton has all-but-banked her campaign on winning Ohio and Texas when they hold primaries next week. In an un-edited exchange shown on CNN.com, DeGeneres asked "what needs to happen" for Clinton to stop Obama's momentum after he's racked up victories in 11 straight votes.

"Well we're going to win Ohio and Michigan," Clinton said to cheers from the audience.

"Wait a minute, Ohio and Texas," Clinton said, catching herself. "We already won Michigan."

Clinton's victory in Ohio's northern neighbor, taking 55 percent in an election where she was the only major candidate on the ballot, is essentially meaningless at the moment. The Democratic National Committee stripped the state of all its delegates after Michigan broke party rules and scheduled its primary too early, but Clinton's campaign has been calling for those delegates to be re-seated.

The Michigan-Texas mix-up was edited out of the interview when it aired on Ellen Tuesday. Instead the host featured an exchange where she grilled Clinton on her support for glitter and asked if she believed she was treated different because she is a woman.

link: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Clinton_to_Ellen_DeGeneres_I_already_0226.html

[ORDagnabbit]

1. nice to win a state when you're the only one on the ballot isnt it? n/t

[GPSrulesall]

4. But remember...

You had the choice to vote uncommitted, if you didn't want to vote for her. Just reminding everyone about that.

[tekisui]

9. And 55 Delegates went to Uncommitted, and would be free to go to

whomever in the unlikely event that the MI delegates are seated, as is.

BTW, Hillary get 80.

[Skip Intro]

14. There was indeed a strong campaign to get voters to vote uncommitted.

[demmiblue]

10. She wasn't the only one on the ballot. n/t

[tekisui]

12. She was the only "first tier" candidate, however.

[RiverStone]

17. Yes - and some of us know it meant nothing.

The voters in MI got screwed.

But that does not change the fact there is no way in hell these delegates will be seated UNLESS it does not factor into the final outcome.

In any case, Hillary will be out of math by the morning of March 5th - so this whole MI debate will no longer matter.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. Rawstory Is Really Running Out Of Material, Huh.

I've never seen such a non issue in my life.

[tekisui]

5. Seems pretty meaningless.

Yet, it could be a glimpse into the play book, through a slip-up. Maybe, they are going to renew the push to seat the MI delegates?

[Bucky]

8. If a major candidate says something provocative, it's news, regardless of your feelings about it

I love Raw Story. They totally rock. They report what's newsworthy, including stuff the neocons don't want you to know.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. This from the guy...

who took Michelle Obama's flub and ran with it.
If OMC responds, it'll likely be with a personal attack,
and a claim it's a completely different situation, but be unable to explain why.

[book_worm]

3. yep she won 55% as the only major name on the ballot

in a contest that doesn't count.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. with none of the above a close second.

which she really does not want to face.

[MADem]

11. "Uncommitted" is not "None of the above."

"Uncommitted" was SEVERAL candidates who were still in the running at the time of that contest, OR "I haven't made up my mind just yet."

[woolldog]

7. Out damn'd spot!

out, I say!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Those states that don't count can be so confusing.

[MadAndy]

15. Hillary clearly has the lead in imaginary delegates. EOM

[CreekDog]

18. A landslide 14 point defeat

against nobody. :shrug: