Extrapolate nationally and Edwards leads!

[Prefer]

If you took the national black to white population percentage and applied it to the statistics from the race tonight, what would the scores be?

US population
black - %12
white - %69

so if SC were the nation,

Obama would have won
%80 of %12 (%9.6) and
%25 of %69 (%17.25)
%26.85 pct total of black and white votes


and Edwards would have won
%3 of %12 (%0.36)
%38 of %69 (%26.91)
%27.27 pct total of black and white votes

black and white votes combined would be of 81% of the electorate

[patrice]

1. Stop it; you're scaring me. nt

[Prefer]

2. what do you mean?

[patrice]

3. If people don't start thinking rationally about what their priorities should be

it looks like it's going to be Obama.

I'm in it for the long haul for Edwards, BTW.

[Prefer]

4. I'll support whoever takes it

I think I was a little wary of Kerry last time it thought being a new englander he was too polar to the south

you have to think about what you need to do to win if you want to win.

[patrice]

5. I will support whoever is nominated too. The Supreme Court is too

important to write off. The rest of what this pResident is going to encounter is going to be crap, but we've got to get in there to do something about the SCOTUS.

[pauldg0]

10. Well,

you would support a loser....he or she will not beat the republicans. The have so much crap on Obama and Clinton, it will be a scorched earth.

During the primaries it is much harder to say anything negative. Edwards has been clean as a whistle. He could bring them both down, but it doesn't work to your advantage that way, unfortunately.

[thesubstanceofdreams]

6. Except that each voter is a person, not a color

That extrapolation doesn't make the slightest sense. Stop considering black/white as the only characteristic which determines one's vote.

[Muttocracy]

7. thank you. Also, some people will not vote for who the media says is

not in 1st or 2nd place (they killed off my candidate long ago)

[cali]

8. That's as ridiculous a formulation as I've ever seen.

It doesn't take into account the reality of New Hampshire or Iowa or Nevada. I'd like to say I understand your hope, but as a former Dean supporter, I saw the writing on the wall in NH.

[patrice]

11. Okay, so let's do the math on that. Can you supply those NH, IA, NV %s.

And then we also need a factor for the Obama cross-overs who WILL cross back in the GE, a phenomenon that does not happen with Edwards because NO Republican wants to risk the possibility of actually running against Edwards.

But let's take a look at those figures anyway.

[avaistheone1]

12. Too many republicans voting in Iowa in the Dem caucas, and too many conservatives

voting in New Hampshire to have much meaning nationwide. New Hampshire has only begun somewhat of a swing blue in recent times.

[HooptieWagon]

9. And Clinton = 27.76%

Essentially a three way tie. However, 27.76 + 27.27 + 26.85 = 82% of combined Blacks and Whites support one of the three Dem candidates. That can't be right, can it?

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Saddest post of the day

I want to hug you and pat you on the head.