2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

shaking of fist.

more voting irregularities

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.

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In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.

upshot being, Obama will pick up a few more NY delegates

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2008/02/hillary_wheel.php

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/16/bill-clinton-obamas-ignoring-my-white-house-legacy/

bill cant stfu

The goddamn Screaming Lobster of Hope is in Amarillo, Texas, giving the best stump speech I've seen of his all year: casual yet precise, passionate but restrained.

Firm, yet yielding to the touch?

Minimalist yet expansive

hot but cold.

Rubbery, squeaky, yet yielding. Receptive. Lubricated.

pink, small, punctual.

corpse-clit

Moderator, lock brain.

hoos it's a small point but "muckraking" requires original reporting, which olberman does't do any of as far as i know

-- Tracer Hand, Saturday, 16 February 2008 14:49

point taken

i'm really beginning to <3 mark penn

“Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8551.html

Nice logic there Penny.

the down time between primaries allows too much room for stupidity.

i'm enjoying the drama, but once there are actual nominees i want to please be placed in suspended animation until election day. my brain cells are dying just thinking about the stupidness of the general election.

Among a crowd of hip and stylish Democrats, announcing one's skepticism about the cool kid would totally dampen the party.

how do you write a sentence like that without immediately gouging out your own eyes in abject wretched shame?

shouldn't Democrats who have complained that George Bush was elected on the strength of a popularity contest be nervous that this blossoming Obamadulation is getting out of hand?

yeah it really sucks how democratic elections are a popularity contest

wtf

writers who pose rhethorical questions with "Obamadulation" used as a noun should be drowned in pig shit.

slate = easy target tho

went to an obama precinct captain training session this morning. crowd was spilling out into the street, maybe 500 people there. ran into three of my professors and some guy i met at a christmas party (so basically most of san antonio's democrats).

oh damn dude didn't know you were an sa guy.

and "most of san antonio's dems" lol otm

Finally made a profile at my.barackobama.com. there's a million portland groups, shockingly.

phonetic transcription of Barack Obama in RP please

BEAR-ick aw-bum-AYYY

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1580960/story.jhtml

Sen. Barack Obama: A riviting speaker whose words inspire and uplift. Vampires: Undead monsters who tear off your flesh and drink your blood.

My money's on the vampires.

dude for the last time mccain is not actually a vampire

You sure about that?

http://www.sahbasucks.com/images/mccain-angry.jpg

stinkeye != vampire

c'mon that picture is hilarious

phonetic transcription of Barack Obama in RP please

'bær ək əʊ 'bɑː(ɹ) mə(ɹ)

i.e. BAR-uhk o-BAR-mer

I mentioned this upthread (so have others, I think), but HRC's Campaign Team only recently discovered that, because of the way the state's delegate-assignment system works, she could wind up with far fewer delegates from Texas than she (until recently) thought.

c&p one of a million articles proclaiming hillarys superior unstoppable amazing organization

KEEPE OUT -- SEKRIT

I'm imagining Obama tiptoe-ing in footie pajamas.

Have we done the Obama reggaeton track yet?

no, but obama girls vs giuliani girls is in my top 10 singles of 2007

I'm still waiting for someone to do an Obama-inspired parody of Toto's "Rosanna."

i am waiting for a BBC presenter to talk about Bear-rack-ing the vote or Baa-rick-tober

Oh god. At least Jacques Chirac is out of power.

i like calling him "obama barack"

i think it's snappier

i am waiting for a BBC presenter to talk about Bear-rack-ing the vote or Baa-rick-tober

BBC newsreaders pronounce his last name "Oh-Bomber" for some reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents

obama girl says she wants him to "barack me all night"

there was an event here called "barack the vote"