Counting states is not granular enough; the popular vote requires adding apples (primary votes) and oranges (caucus votes); and the apportionment of pledged delegates has too many nondemocratic biases.

County lines are fairly randomized historical artifacts and, nationwide, counties come in all sizes, population densities, demographic profiles, etc.

Counties won is more relevant than states won (an often used talking point from senior members of the Obama campaign) as a metric for the "will of the people."

As I see it, the Obama campaign (with overwhelming enablement from the MSM) has tried to redefine winning from a "majority of delegates" to a "majority of pledged delegates" based largely on an argument that this is the best metric for the democratic preference of the voters. They throw out secondary metrics, such as states won, in order to bolster the claim.

It used to drive me nuts when people called me any of those names, no matter if I knew them or not.

Actually, I am sort of surprised that Obama who want's to be the "young" candidate, still has this habit of calling women "sweetie." His wife should have helped him get rid of this bad habit if that what it is.

But in a workplace shared by a lot of different personalities, it's not really one individual's call to make.

We can't know everyone's tolerance level for such a term, even people we see regularly in familiar but non-casual environments.

I give a lot of latitude to elders. From others, the unentitled expectation of ego-strokes adds an necessary chore in an already hectic schedule.

I don't want my support staff calling co-workers or incoming clients "Sweetie" under any circumstances. I don't want them to think they have to tolerate that or worry they'll be pegged as "difficult".

Uninvited diminutives and familiarity add to workplace stress. Striving NOT to using such a term is a tiny adjustment and is probably easy for many of us who like our terms of endearment to mean something.

A fellow worker might not know whether it's a come-on. A GL person could be out privately but not at work and it's one of the dozens of times s/he has to have the moment of discomfort in a day. Someone might be going through relationship stress at home or entering a new one and feel awkward about announcing such things. You just never know.

WTF?  If Obama and Brazile don't care about white, rural voters, Hispanics (that would be me) and womer supporting Hillary, why do they care what WE say or think?

This is what a female friend taught me that she says when she knows someone is excited about something that she unfortunately isn't.  Rather than try to come up with a relevant social lie to cover her true feelings, she just uses those two phrases.  The responses are polite, positive and most importantly, can cut off further discussion of the topic.

Obama is not paying bloggers.

I'm really glad to meet you!
I really admire you for "X".
Thank you!

I also wanted to let you know that I am off to find the Chelsea video. I doubt I have seen that one. She speaks so well. Just like a Clinton ;-)