Uh...Hillary took the same pledge as Obama on not campaigning in Florida and Michigan. The DNC made the rules and both campaigns pledged to uphold their decision. At least Hillary did until things went awry .... !
Hillary DID go to those states. Those people DID vote, and those votes DID go to Hillary.
They are hers.
The Popular Vote argument has no official weight. By considering FL and MI in the Popular Vote argument, it in no way violates the DNC rules or sanctions, since it is not an argument to seat those delegations. To put it another way, those people were permitted to vote by the DNC, and even though their votes will have no effect on the seated delegation, they are still votes. Not counting them in the Popular Vote tally denies that they even exist.
Which leaves the Obama camp making the much weaker argument that the votes in MI and FL were distorted by the lack of campaigning and the fact that Obama was not even on the ballot in Michigan. The Clintons should be magnanimous and agree that the Michigan totals should be adjusted to reflect the exit polling data, but should stick to their guns in Florida, because Obama ran advertising in Florida prior to the election, and Clinton did not.
Of course, the nationwide Popular Vote means nothing, but every Democrat in the country has been whining about the supposed miscarriage of justice of 2000, when Gore lost even though he won the Popular Vote (not really, but work with me here...). It will be a powerful argument for Clinton to say the same standard should work here.