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Barack Obama swept the Potomac Primary last night, bringing his winning streak to eight, and eclipsing Hillary Clinton in the delegate count, 1,059 to 956 among pledged delegates.
John McCain continued his march to the nomination, winning all three states and adding to his already substantial delegate lead. Mike Huckabee came close in Virginia, doing well in rural areas and losing the state by less than 50,000 votes. He vowed last night to stay in the race and challenge McCain until the end. "There is still a sense in the Republican Party to have a choice," Huckabee said after the close race in Virginia. "Just a few days ago... a lot of the polls showed me behind by 30 points.... Yesterday, we closed within 11 or 12. Maybe if we had a few more days we could have closed the gap all the way."
Obama won all three primaries last night by a landslide, as was expected. He also broke about even with Clinton among whites in Virginia according to exit polls. And he passed another crucial test, as Virginia was the first Southern state where Obama won among white men.
Clinton still leads Obama among superdelegates, 234 to 156 according to CNN, although that number may change as the primaries wear on. Its too soon to start writing Hillary's political obituary, but there has been little good news coming out of her camp lately. Her campaign manager resigned Sunday evening, and last night Mike Henry, her deputy campaign manager resigned. She's loaned her campaign millions of dollars, and two key players from her Internet team have quit as well. Those aren't the kinds of things that happen when you're winning. Clinton has set her sights on Ohio and Texas, making March 4 a likely do-or-die vote for her.
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I think what's driving these victories for Obama is "who would beat McCain in a national election?" In my mind, McCain would siphon a lot more Obama supporters than Clinton supporters.
I think what is driving voters to Obama is "Change?..." or some vague promise of "better than before". So Nixonian "Silent Majority". I love it.
Also, Hillary is retarded to go "do or die" in TX and OH. Look what happened to Giuliani.
Is O’Bama getting better on the stump or am I just falling for the hype? But before I fall any further, interesting NYT Op-ed by one of Hillary's most negative critics Maureen Dowd. As always overly negative, but she seems to point to the fact that O’Bama has “transcended” race to such a point that even NASCAR white males are comfortable with him, while Hillary “uses” gender to her advantage. I find comments like that disturbing, especially when the front page of the same paper reports that American women are being gang raped by American contractors in Iraq with no legal options except “arbitration”
Slaphappy: I think you're right regarding the motivation, though I think the issue is that Clinton is extremely weak among independents and with educated voters, all of whom seem well-disposed to McCain. In this case, the equation is that Obama can get McCain's voters whereas Clinton will be fighting for the same states in which Kerry and Gore had difficulties.
@Spook:
Obama was always good on the stump. As a matter of fact, his speaking ability (at the last Democratic Convention) is what got him where he is today.
It's probably one of the reasons I like him over McCain, as silly as that seems.
Apples and oranges re: "do-or-die", spavone. Giuliani is a vindictive troll that voters saw through once his petty nature became transparent and his campaign settled into a one-note "9/11" song and dance. Hillary's on the ropes and hopes that the large Mexican-american voting bloc in Texas can at least keep up her candidacy until the convention. Otherwise, those superdelegates she claims are going to become typically fickle and back a winning horse.
Spook: Obama's getting better on the stump and you're falling for the hype. It was noted that in the Potomac primaries yesterday Obama made huge gains among all voting blocs, including Latin-Americans, women, and white males. Firing Patti Solis Doyle came at a pretty bad time for Hillary, as some influential Hispanics have been calling it a slap in the face (whatever that means).
Slaphappy: McCain might siphon independents from Obama, but Obama is - and I cannot stress this enough - energizing young voters so much that he could withstand the body blow. a large number of the independents who voted republican yesterday went for Huckabee.
Chuck: Bad campaign strategy equals bad campaign strategy. I mean, "vindicive troll" is your opinion, I guess. In any case, if she pulls it out in those states, it will be very impressive, but Obama has the "M" word: MOMENTUM!!
And anyway, firing Pati for Maggie Williams was a routine campaign shake-up as far as I am concerned, but it is a terrible time to lose staff. I am pretty sure Hil is dunzo.
Being a vindictive troll was part of Giuliani's bad campaign strategy.