2008 Primaries Thread

Mr. Goodman, has the possibility that Obama is smarter than Hillary ever occurred to you?

Of course it has. Look, I vote on three issues. The future of two of these determine my future employment as I plan to work within their area of policy and as a part of the next administration. It is in my best interest to support the candidate who I think will not only best serve the country, but serve myself (and my beliefs) as well.

While I have the utmost respect for the three leading candidates, I believe Senator Clinton is the candidate who best fits my ideology and interests.

you are out of a job if clinton looses?

The future of two of these determine my future employment as I plan to work within their area of policy and as a part of the next administration

At least you're selfless.

you are out of a job if clinton looses?

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From: Lil' Boosie

Date: Feb 9, 2008 9:48 AM
Subject: VOTE FOR A CHANGE
Body: Normally I dont even get involved in all the politics... but make sure you go vote for BARACK TODAY...

You want to see change in the world... make sure you go vote.

lxy reports that washington's caucus today is "already really annoying"

Huckabee takes Kansas

LIVE REPORT FROM MACKRO MACKRO VIA PHONE:

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"From Queen Anne Hill, 'pro-Hillary'/Gary Locke district:

Obama -- 90%
Clinton -- 10%
GOP -- a vast and empty silence

Now off to the Kimya Dawson instore at Easy Street.

Rock. (Pretty surprising even for me!)"

i wish more ron paul fans wouldn't vote

-- J.D., Sunday, 30 December 2007 10:28 (9 hours ago) Link

Sorry. We're coming out in droves on super tuesday. Get ready.

-- If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, December 30, 2007 2:51 PM (Sunday, December 30, 2007 2:51 PM) Bookmark Link

x-post -- He adds his estimates aren't official, but just judging by the raising of hands. Also adds it was a total madhouse, people asked to leave if preferences had already been recorded -- scene outside "like a natural disaster had happened and everyone was waiting in line for supplies"

at least he broke 5% in NY, xp

is QA supposed to be pro-Hillary because richies live there?

My wife drove by the Republican caucus site in our crappy Kansas town this morning as the caucus was ending, and said every person she saw was age 65 or older (I guess the three Ron Paul voters were still inside moping).

I'm surprised Huckabee won so big here---there's a lot of military here, and I thought they'd be very pro-McCain.

x-post -- Ask the man when he gets back to this thread.

Not one of Huckabee's better photos:

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp2-9-08a.jpg

Now off to the Kimya Dawson instore at Easy Street.

lol

Was he chewing on a baby with those incisors?

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i am hoping huckabee can make a run and conservative infighting will continue.

i saw ann coulter on cspan at the cpac thing and she said she would have voted for giuliani because he would pick judges that would be against miranda rights

i'm still in shock that ann coulter's a deadhead.

I'm not!

lol at lowercase "deadhead"

it is kind of baffling to me that coulter/rush/etc thought mitt a "true conservative"

i guess they were enamored by his wealth/biz background?

haircut.

I'm surprised Huckabee won so big here---there's a lot of military here, and I thought they'd be very pro-McCain.

I kind of feel like Huckabee's good-guy born again persona goes over pretty well in KS, b/c it's probably how a lot of people view themselves. There might be a lot of military in some places, but there are tons of registered Republicans all over the state to kind of balance them out.

greenwood elementary (sea, US) initial tally:

obama 55
hillary 9
undecided 6

when do the results start coming in? i thought i had read nebraska's caucuses were over at like 5 est?

link passed along to me:

http://community.livejournal.com/seattle/5045218.html

Wow. That's fucked up.
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http://wa-democrats.org/

The second goes to the WA state Democrats website. The first one? The WA state GOP site.

oh boy:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Now_on_MSNBC.html#comments

looks like she's pimped out her leverage.

i saw ann coulter on cspan at the cpac thing and she said she would have voted for giuliani because he would pick judges that would be against miranda rights

-- artdamages, Saturday, February 9, 2008 9:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

for a second there i was pro-coulter; my brain read that as 'miranda july'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMHLI7ypeLQ

Crappy vid of Obama with a megaphone addressing the 3K+ supporters who got stuck out in the cold outside the Key Arena yesterday.

they had one of those specials for McCain a few days ago

Well, just back from caucusing. My precinct had 35 people show up, of whom 28 went for Obama and 7 for Clinton, with 5 delegates going to the former and 1 to the latter, which looked like it was more or less the story for all the Everett precincts. Hopefully that result is replicated all over WA.

Looking at Jergins' post, maybe so.

some people in the comments section say this was planned to be paired with a mccain headliners & legends ep?

At my district's '04 caucus, maybe 100 people showed up total. The theater they held it at this year has 3,000 seats and there were probably another thousand people who couldn't be seated. Very happy to see that.

http://www.komotv.com/news/15440961.html

So it looks like turnout statewide was around _double_ 4 years ago

Also, word from tacoma:

Senor Funkapus (4:16:35 PM): how was the vote breakdown?
c**** (4:17:42 PM): so I guess there were multiple districts there and the split us up into different rooms. my district ended up being 118 people I think with over 70 to obama
Senor Funkapus (4:17:52 PM): neat
c**** (4:17:57 PM): 11 obama delegates and 5 hillary delegates is how it broke down
c**** (4:18:06 PM): to the county convention
c**** (4:18:19 PM): not sure how the others broke down yet

double THAN 4 years ago, rather

It seems they might be breaking it down a bit differently in different places. Ours had the whole congressional district (Everett/Marysville/Tulalip) gathered in one place, broken down by precincts that seem to have gotten about 7 to 4 delegates each based on turnout.

That should be legislative district rather than congressional district, no one had to drive here from Bellingham.

Okay, Obama is winning WA & NE handily.

Yeah, secondhand word is that whatever county Omaha's in is something like 77% for obama.

did they ever say who won New Mexico?

Is your s/n really "Senor Funkapus"? That's awesome. xp

I think they're still working on that, but last I saw Clinton was in the lead.

Is your s/n really "Senor Funkapus"? That's awesome. xp

Yes it is. I needed a new aim name after (i think) yerac & RJG had my old one banned. So i went for one appropriately stupid, and months later San Andreas was released with George Clinton's character sporting a startingly similar moniker.

Never played San Andreas, so I don't know about that.

Oh it's worth it, especially on a PC.

Anyhoo, CNN's calling NE & WA for Obama, who's currently leading 2-to-1 with something like 73 and 48% of the vote in.