(semi) Live Blogging Primary Results
8:25 – No news
However…Pelosi defends superdelegates and gets smacked by Donna Brazille.
Pelosi: “So, again, I don’t think that members of Congress, governors and senators are not attuned to what’s happening in their states and in their districts,” Pelosi said.
CNN political analyst Donna Brazile railed against the scenario.
“If 795 of my colleagues decide this election, I will quit the Democratic Party. I feel very strongly about this,” Brazile said.
To tranlate that double negative into english, she thinks superdelegates ARE attuned to what’s happening in their states and in their districts. Hat tip to Liz Allen for pointing out this story.
5:50 – Huckabee just CRUSHED McCain in Kansas 11,627 to 4,587.
Holy SH..? So much for McCain bringing the GOP together. The Limbags will not go down without a fight.
Hahahahaha. I just love it.
Son….you ain’t never been to Kansas, has ya?
Just keep flyin’ over.
Ya know they wrote a book about What’s The Matter With Kansas and some of those people were extremely weird.
Actually, Mike, I have been to Kansas. I know it is full of batshit crazy radical reich wing idiots who hate McCain. Huckabee’s win shows that McCain cannot unify the Republican Party. That is why I love it.
Obama takes Nebraska.
Looks like Ron Paul has essentially bowed out.
Nebraska!
I like Obama’s “50 state strategy”
Jason –
The sentence that follows Brazile is more important
” The second fight is likely to be over seating delegates from Michigan and Florida. The Democratic Party has already voted not to seat their delegates because they held early primaries.
Clinton won both contests, and she wants those delegates seated.
On the Senate floor on Friday, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida — a Clinton supporter — predicted a “potential train wreck” when deciding what to do about the disputed delegates from Florida and Michigan.
He opposes Dean’s suggestion to consider a new vote.
“It’s a basic underpinning of our democracy and it is a basic underpinning of our constitutional right to vote and to have that vote counted,” Nelson said.
“You can’t undo an election with a caucus. And especially you can’t undo an election where 1.7 million Florida Democrats have gone to vote in a secret ballot and replace it with a caucus that maybe 50,000 people would show up,” Nelson added.”
I also heard analysis this evening that said 88% of Obama voters said they would be “Dissatisfied” if Clinton were the nominee.
If you go to the convention without a nominee, you have BIG problems.
Nebraska 73 percent of precincts reporting:
Oy!
Obama 69
Clinton 31
A crushing victory for Obama.
WA results
Per CNN:
48 percent of precincts reporting:
Obama 67
Clinton 32
Clinton won both contests…
That is dishonest of CNN. Obama had his name removed from Mich ballots.
If you go to the convention without a nominee, you have BIG problems.
It is your only hope – and even that is a slim hope.
Heh. Romney wins the CPAC straw poll AFTER he quitts the race. Now that’s some serious McCain hate.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_el_pr/conservatives_romney
Thunder!!! Lightning!!!
Obama looking good in LA. 49% (2% precincts)
Jeff Toobin: It isn’t fair to try to ghettoize the Obama campaign. Just look at what’s happening today, it is more than an urban vote that he is winning.
LA: Obama’s lead is extending. 54% (7% precincts)
Its all about those super delegates. We the citizens of Delaware must insist our delegates support our vote. Now how we gonna reign Minner in!
So, Liz, you seem to have softened on Obama. Can you explain your change of heart?
Washington goes to Obama.
68%-38% Obama in Washington. He is really winning these things strong.
LA called for Obama.
It’s now a sweep.
I’m blown away by some of these percentages. He must have a half-dozen or more states where he topped 65%.
Very impressive.
It is amazing. That will help, since most are not winner take all…
The results as they translate to delegates so far:
Nebraska
Obama 17
Clinton 7
Louisiana
Obama 7
Clinton 6
Washington
Obama 25
Clinton 13
Overall
Obama 1,009
Clinton 1,083
Huck’s leading in LA. This cracks me up.
They are keeping hope alive that Reagan will rise from the grave.
Actually look at the Washington numbers…Paul’s.
“Looks like Ron Paul has essentially bowed out.”
Good riddens, Ron Paul, you filthy racist pig. I hope you lose your congressional seat too.
Thanks, Dana. You just made me laugh. You have so little patience for these guys. I love it.
God, look at how the GOP is treating their nominee.
For years the rabid dogs in the GOP went after the Dem party & Liberals, claiming that if they had it all, things would be better. Well, they got it all. The Presidency and both houses of Congress. And what happened? It all went to hell. Nearly everything they touched failed miserably and often in record terms.
You name it: the Iraq war, now even the war in Afghanistan, our relations w/ other nations, the economy, the budget deficit and national debt, record bankruptcies, greater wage inequality since the Great Depression, Katrina, civil liberties, and so much more–all of it were utter failures.
They know they can’t blame the libs and Dems because they were in charge and the American people won’t hear it. So now they are snarling and mauling one another. They are ripping the flesh off their own. They are such failures they can’t even come together around their nominee when it’s in their best interest to do so.
Why? Because they have become addicted to the attack, to political mugging, to McCarthy like tactics, and since they can’t do it to the Dems, they’ve turned on one another. The GOP now is like a Saturday afternoon at one of Michael Vick’s home “dog shows.”
It’s their party and it’s a free country. Let them devour one another. It’s their right and it’s our right to get some popcorn and watch them massacre themselves until they reach the condition of utter irrelevance.
I’m thinking we Dems will get the White House, many more Dems in the House, and 60 plus seats in the Senate. I can hardly wait for it. The Republicans in the last 7 years have been an unrelenting plague on America. Fuck ‘em. I say.
I want to riff on that, but I am tired and I know I’ll screw it up. Tomorrow.
G’night
From today’s NYT:
On Saturday, with the contest so close, excitement ran high, as did turnout.
In Nebraska, The Omaha World-Herald reported that organizers at two caucus sites had been so overrun by crowds that they abandoned traditional caucusing and asked voters to drop makeshift scrap-paper ballots into a box instead. In Sarpy County, in suburban Omaha, traffic backed up on Highway 370 when thousands of voters showed up at a precinct where organizers had planned for hundreds.
In Washington, the Democratic party reported record-breaking numbers of caucusgoers, with early totals suggesting turnout would be nearly be nearly double what it was in 2004 — itself a record year — when 100,000 Democrats caucused.
I wonder if the party stalwarts understand that this turnout is NOT for Hillary, but for Obama.