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Cancelled

The meme we have been seeing for some time hasreappeared: Oregon “cancels out” Kentucky or is “almost a mirror image.”  Yes, 16 point margins are almost exactly like 35 point margins, especially when you double them.  Clinton is likely to come out of the evening with 150,000 more votes and over a dozen more delegates than her opponent, but those have evidently been “cancelled out,” too.    

This is an interesting position for Obama supporters to take, given their candidate’s claim to the majority of pledged delegates.  It turns out that his majority must actually be “cancelled out” by Hillary’s minority.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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