His point was correct, though - LOST's ending wasn't defined when the series started, and the producers have stated that part of the reason Season 3 dragged so much was because they didn't have an end in sight and were getting kind of directionless.

ESPN already tried the "pay for premium content" approach - it's called "Insider", and for awhile (peaking a year or two ago), probably half the non-news content on the site was restricted to Insider subscribers. I'm not sure of the price for Insider, maybe $10 a year, and you got it free with an ESPN magazine subscription. However, I've been noticing that the little "i" denoting Insider content is becoming more and more rare - there's exactly one of them on the front page of ESPN.com right now, and most of their blogs and archives have dropped it - so I'm wondering if they're phasing that out in favor of this new tactic.

Clinton won the Democratic popular vote largely because she didn't take her name off the ballot in Michigan as Edwards and Obama did (and as the party requested). Obama officially didn't get any votes in Michigan - the people who wanted to vote Obama ended up voting for "uncommitted", and somehow I doubt that Clinton is giving Obama those votes when she refers to the "popular vote".