Not that it would make much difference to the Clintons, who, after all, crow about winning Michigan--where they ran unopposed--and believe that somehow no one votes in a caucus, but, in the interest of intellectual honesty:
How many of HRC's 18 million votes came from people who despise her and only sought to screw our nominee?
I'm not a statistician, but based on a little digging, I think one can reasonably--conservatively--assume that a good chunk of her margins from March onward came from Limbaugh's Operation Chaos voters. Let's conservatively peg it at 2%: That would amount to 267,356 votes.
We all know it really happened. In the case of Indiana, Chaos voters actually flipped the state from the nominee.
For documentation, see any of the following:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/...
http://www.freerepublic.com/...
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
Poblano, in his forecast for Indiana:
After calling off his dogs on Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh has re-initiated Operating Chaos, asking his listeners to vote for Hillary Clinton to prolong the Democrats' nomination process. There is, I think, reasonable circumstantial evidence from the exit polls that Limbaughs's instructions netted Clinton somewhere in the range of 2-4 points in Texas, Ohio, and Mississippi.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/...
JohnKWilson on kos:
In the voting during January and February, Republicans were an average of 3.8% of the voters in the Democratic Primary, and they heavily supported Obama. But for the primaries in March, in Texas, Ohio, and Mississippi, Republicans have been 8% of the voters in the Democratic primary, and now they heavily support Hillary Clinton. This is definite proof of the "Limbaugh effect" coming through. Overall, 1.36% of the voters in the January and February primaries were Republicans who marked their ballot for Clinton; yet, 5.67% of the voters in the March primaries were Republicans voting for Clinton. Barack Obama’s Republican numbers in the March primary showed only a modest increase, probably from moderate Republicans who shifted their support to Obama once John McCain’s campaign was assured of victory.
[snip]
Rarely in American politics have so many people ever intentionally voted for a candidate they hate so much. Approximately 40,000 Republicans in Mississippi decided to vote for Hillary Clinton in order to help her destroy the Democratic Party this year with a divided convention. Hillary Clinton’s "big wins" in March failed to help her close the delegate gap, and she cannot possibly win the pledged delegate race against Obama. The only hope for Hillary Clinton is that Republican voters will help her reduce the gap against Obama, and that the superdelegates will somehow be convinced to obey the will of Rush Limbaugh and his acolytes by stealing the election from the legitimate voters.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
This is not purely an exercise in snark. We need to make sure that any discussion of who won the popular vote in the democratic primary includes all the relavant facts. Somewhere between 1% and 2% of HRC's popular vote total in the primary was Chaos.
Perhaps RealClearPolitics should update its totals to include a fourth scenario, accounting for meddling Repugs.
My 2% calculations follow:
MT
Barack Obama 102,373
Hillary Rodham Clinton 74,792
Total 181401
2% = 3,628
SD
Hillary Rodham Clinton 54,179
Barack Obama 43,726
Total 97,905
2% = 1,958
PR
Hillary Rodham Clinton 263,120
Barack Obama 121,458
Total 384,578
2% = 7,692
KY
Hillary Rodham Clinton 459,124
Barack Obama 209,778
Total 701,166
2% = 14,023
OR
Barack Obama 360,728
Hillary Rodham Clinton 252,270
Total 612,998
2% = 12,260
WV
Hillary Rodham Clinton 239,062
Barack Obama 91,652
Total 356,790
2% = 7136
IN
Hillary Rodham Clinton 641,734
Barack Obama 623,294
Total 1,265,028
2% = 25,301
NC
Barack Obama 890,723
Hillary Rodham Clinton 657,997
Total 1,583,929
2% = 31,679
PA
Hillary Rodham Clinton 1,260,444
Barack Obama 1,046,220
Total 2,306,664
2% = 46,133
MS
Barack Obama 265,502
Hillary Rodham Clinton 159,221
Total 434,110
2% = 8682
WY
Barack Obama 5,378
Hillary Rodham Clinton 3,312
Total 8,760
2% = 175
TX
Hillary Rodham Clinton 1,459,814
Barack Obama 1,358,785
Total 2,868,454
2% = 57,369
OH
Hillary Rodham Clinton 1,207,806
Barack Obama 979,025
Total 2,224,907
2% = 44,498
RI
Hillary Rodham Clinton 108,949
Barack Obama 75,316
Total 186,439
2% = 3729
VT
Barack Obama 91,901
Hillary Rodham Clinton 59,806
Total 154,653
2% = 3,093
2% of TOTAL Votes, March Onward = 267,356