Today was a good day.

[Drunken Irishman]

:)

[FedoraLV]

1. Aye

O'Bama has the luck of the Irish!

-FedoraLV

[Inuca]

2. Well....

I am not so sure.... That 26% of the white vote was pretty depressing. On the other hand, just heard on Morning Joe that republicans votes 3 to 1 for Clinton! They did not say what % of the overall vote that was, so I have no idea of how (in)significant an impact overall, but still...

[ginnyinWI]

3. does that mean that Clinton's votes were packed by Repubs?

If so, then Obama's percent of white Dem votes is really higher than what it shows.

But votes are votes, and all count toward producing pledged delegates, and that's the game right now. He's winning it, she's losing it. The General Election will be a new game.

[Inuca]

5. OTOH

the stupid "perception" game: Time on Her Side: Obama Maintains Lead, but Clinton Might Have the Edge http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=4430817&page=2 Unless somebody does something, I have no idea who and what (though Pelosi's comment yesterday maybe is a harbinger of things to come) this whole thing wil get worse and worse to maybe the point of no return come November. The polarization between the candidates and their supporters is getting really scary, see the % that would be unhappy with the other candidate in the exit polls yesterday (no idea how typical or atypical MS may be in this respect) or Ferraro's comments (I assume, rightly or wrongly, that they were not made on purpose, and she is I assume a smart woman, so I take her comments as the expression of a very deep seated frustration, similar to Power's "monster" comment).

[FedoraLV]

10. I think there may be some truth

in ginnyinWI's post.

-FedoraLV

[karynnj]

4. Even without the bump from Rush,

this is the deep south. The media is making more of this then the fact that Obama got 80% of the total vote in Idaho - meaning HRC got no more than 20%. It is more disturbing - and likely to be more a nationwide trend that HRC got 9% of the black vote.

The real significance is not known - as it depends what they will do in the GE, where in fact we will likely lose MI and ID. People game opinion polls - so asking what they will do in the GE before the Primary is over is suspect. (ie - I would be tempted to say I'm staying home if HRC wins - and that would be true no matter what I really thought.

[Inuca]

8. For what it's worth

I have no idea how much, amyeb you can make more sense of the validity of the analysis http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/12/81339/4516/40/474909 The GOP is now gaming our primary for Clinton. It's time to end it.

[karynnj]

13. Thanks for the link

That really is sick.

[Inuca]

14. In the meantime

I heard the same 24% of her vote being republicans mentioned on Hardball (the "big number"). This means 1. without this, he most likely would have won more delegates out of MS (64% threshold, if I remember correctly; and, more importantly 2. the perception game about votes being so dramatically along racial lines. These high percentages of republicans just cannot be "real" votes, it just defies any common sense. Can Limbaugh and others like him have such an influence or is the same idea being circulates along other, less in the open channels, I wonder... In any case, it's just one more reason why this must end ASAP, but for the life of me I cannot see how it can be forced or induced to end.

[karynnj]

15. What I question is whether in any state

it would be against election law for someone to publicly advocate for this.

[book_worm]

6. 26% of white vote is comparable to some other states but still it would be better if it were higher.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. It was to be expected.

Mississippi is not Georgia. Hell, it's not even South Carolina. It's pretty much a poorer Alabama, so that should tell you what type of state it is. And no, I'm not ragging on Miss., but it's the facts. Obama was going to lose the white vote here big and I knew that going in. But the fact Saturday he won the white vote in Wyoming kinda cancels out this. :D

[Pirate Smile]

16. 24% of her vote was Republicans.

I felt better after I heard that Obama's white vote share was the same as Alabama so it seems to be particular to that area.

[sonias]

9. We won Texas - that's a good thing

CNN 3/12/08
Obama increases lead in delegate count
(snip)
CNN Tuesday also projected that Obama was the winner of the Texas Democratic caucuses that occurred March 4. Obama will be awarded 38 of Texas's delegates, while Clinton will win 29 delegates as a result of the caucuses, CNN estimates.
Clinton beat Obama 51 percent to 47 percent in the Texas primary that was also held on March 4, but Obama was expected to win a majority of the 228 Texas delegates due to his caucus win.

Two-thirds of the state's 193 delegates were at stake at the primary, while the remaining third were decided by the caucuses.

With the wins in Mississippi and Texas, Obama now leads Clinton 1,608 to 1,478 in the total delegate count, CNN estimates. Neither candidate is expected to obtain the 2,025 delegates needed to win the nomination outright before the national convention in August.

:applause:

Sonia

[Democrafty]

11. Thank you, Texas!!!

(That is something I really never thought I'd type, ha!)

[sonias]

12. Well glad you found some good in us

We're always been here.

:hi:


Sonia