“If we were under the Republican system, which is more like the Electoral College, she’d have a 300-delegate lead here,” Bill Clinton told The Washington Post today. “I mean, Sen. McCain is already the nominee because they chose a system to produce that result, and we don’t have a nominee here, because the Democrats chose a system that prevents that result.”

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This e-mail went out from the Clinton camp, under Bill Clinton’s name, today:

Here’s the most important thing you need to know about this race: it’s neck-and-neck.

Only 130 delegates separate Hillary from Senator Obama — and that’s not counting Florida and Michigan. The difference in popular vote is less than 1 percent, and millions of voters have yet to make their voices heard. This election should be about their choice.

But now we’re hearing people - elected officials, party members, and Obama campaign surrogates - call for Hillary to pull out.

With the race this close, it sure doesn’t make sense to me that she’d leave now — does it make sense to you?

Thoughts?

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The most intriguing part of the new Wall Street Journal interview with President Jimmy Carter is perhaps not that he called Barack Obama “extraordinary,” as CNN is currently highlighting, but that Carter didn’t pull a full Teddy Kennedy and throw an endorsement behind the junior Senator. It is well-known (in Washington circles, at least) that the Clintons have not always been the greatest fans of Carter, nor he of them. In fact, controversial politicking by Carter while president may have played a primary factor in one of Bill Clinton’s few political losses in his Arkansas home state decades ago.

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A Big Head DC spy at a campaign victory event for Barack Obama in Columbia, South Carolina tells us that the crowd “wildly booed” Bill Clinton when the former president’s image, beamed from an event in Missouri, was shown on a screen there. The boos were so loud that our spy couldn’t hear Clinton’s speech.

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