2008 Primaries Thread

I think gff is saying that Cerisi and Franken are the two Senate choices in MN for the DFL

Huck in Alabama

I love Charles Gibson.

ABC calling Delaware for Obama.

I only did the Presidential preference in MN as well; INSANE mob of people. We had to wait in line to get into the building at all. (Granted, Northfield is a very liberal town, but 2004 was crazy... this was way way crazier than then.)

Huckabee's doing remarkably well.

Yeah. It's like Huckabee winning the South, McCain winning the Northeast and Romney maybe -- maybe -- winning some stuff in the West.

So is there a real race on the GOP side, or is it just forestalling the inevitable?

Drudge being weirdly slow in updating for those latest wins...

(CNN just called DE for Obama too.)

Has anyone figured out how exactly people are calculating the number of superdelegates? Does it not matter that Obama has more, like, actual delegates?

CNN's not calling MA since none of the Boston precincts have reported yet.

ABC is calling MA for HRC.

Among white voters, 62 percent voted for Obama in Illinois

among Hispanic voters, 52 percent voted for Obama and 46 percent voted for Clinton. (in IL)

Drudge being weirdly slow in updating for those latest wins...

Possibly by design. Drudge prefers Romney.

In addition, the poll also indicated that Obama polled far better in Clinton's home state of New York than Clinton did in Illinois.

Clinton captured 56 percent of the votes in New York state compared with 47 percent of Obama. A significant gender gap was seen among white voters in New York, with only 52 percent of white men voting for Clinton compared with 42 percent for Obama, while 62 percent of white women voted for Clinton compared with 34 percent for Obama.

Gibson and Stephanopolouspolouspopolous superbly explained how delegates are chosen.

Someone on CNN trying to draw conclusions about Hill's demographic draws based on numbers from NY, which doesn't make much sense.

You convinced me Alfred, I'm changing to ABC.

Drudge calling NJ for HRC.

(Via ABC.)

Plouffe: Clinton Debate Plan Resembles “Second-Tier Congressional Campaign”

zing

Echoing gff and Sara, the place where I caucused (near the U of M) was crazy full! There were about 200 people in line on the sidewalk in front of me and just as many behind me by the time I got to the front of the line. Apparently they ran out of ballots within a half hour of opening, so everything was on paper slips, no chance to include anything but presidential candidate preference.

Public radio was talking about traffic jams all over the metro area, people even abandoning their cars in the road to go poll.

rad!!

i mean, take the bus or walk, fules

ABC calls McCain in NY.

Also appears to be calling AL for Huckabee, though he uh has less votes right now.

Oh cause all the evangelicals came out.

cspan's feed from ap... i hate listening to the networks 'call it' one way or another, tbh

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2008/by_state/US_Page_0205_VD.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS

Yep, caucus in St. Paul had a huge line, maybe 10-15 minute wait to get into the building.

ha u weren't at the middle school on summit were you??

watching George Will and Cokie Roberts is like drinking warm chocolate milk.

there was definitely a big line when i was there, but i mist have timed it right, cos it moved pretty quicky

xp uh

watching George Will and Cokie Roberts is like drinking warm chocolate milk.

I was at Macalester one a block away.

That was coherent.

vomit inducing?

yes -- a purgative.

The plummiest of spews.

"Lickchunder"

One of Nitzer Ebb's finest B-sides.

Meantime, Ben Domenech cries, pukes up, wonders if that plagiarizing racket might be good for him yet.

I advise everyone to stay away from The Corner tonight -- holy shit.

Are you kidding? Entertainment galore! Andy McCarthy having a meltdown is pure roffles.

He must feel really good about his choice of people to support over this past week. "GUILIANI! Uh...okay, ROMNEY! Er.."

You have to wonder if the total disaster that was the Bush administration has made people care about politics again.

obv

Yeah, I'm not wondering at all, frankly.

could just be the internets

The YouTubes?

Well, I guess one good thing had to come out of it...

Heh - watch Huck get courted by McCain for veep.