the Clinton campaign has now embraced a position that is not only hard to defend, but is so ridiculous on its face that it has made the entire popular vote meta-narrative unwinnable. Namely, they are now claiming (quietly through their website, more loudly through surrogates and bloggers) a lead in the popular vote. However, the only version that they lead is one that not only includes Michigan, but excludes Iowa, Nevada, Maine and Washington.

If anything, it is an argument that takes some cajones.

John Cole describes it using what Captain Kirk once called “colorful metaphors”: click.

h/t: Matthew Shugart via this comment.