WYOMING: Obama Wins Caucus

post from Taylor Marsh on 08 March 2008 05:33:24 PM. © Taylor Marsh

WYOMING: Obama Wins Caucus updatedTo add up front, WJC was talking in Mississippi about the "dream team" ticket:"I know that she has always been open to it, because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he-??s brought[...]

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Results Thread #3

post from Daily Kos on 08 March 2008 05:33:00 PM. © Daily Kos

Wyoming

Note that they'll be caucusing all day today in Wyoming. Final results expected around 9 pm EST. (PocketNines continues updating.)

87 percent reporting

Obama 58-- 4,077
Clinton 41 -- 2,838

Delegates

Obama 158
Clinton 114

Just one more county, Teton, to go. It begins its caucus in about half an hour.

While results aren't official until Teton Co. comes in, obviously Obama takes the state. By PocketNines' math, the delegate breakdown out of the state should be 7-5.

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Strange Bedfellows

post from Kmareka.com on 08 March 2008 05:28:00 PM. © Kmareka.com

When the Hillary Clinton ad agency picked stock footage of a sleeping child for its red telephone commercial they had no way of knowing that the child had grown up to be ? an Obama campaigner!

Via the Huffington Post, check out an interview with Casey Knowles, now a high school senior, who makes it clear that she trusts Barack Obama to make the right decisions in a crisis.

As we consider the awesome power and responsibility of the presidency, let us think of who has been watching the phone for the past eight years, and will until January 20, 2009. Sleep tight, America.

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Wyoming Caucus

post from Moue Magazine on 08 March 2008 05:27:38 PM. © Moue Magazine

The numbers right now (via CNN):Obama: 58%Clinton: 41%Uncommitted: 1%Precincts reporting: 87%I’ll update when more information is in.In other caucus/primary news, I mentioned it in the comments section of the previous post but it looks like Clinton[...]

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Long Shot GOP Candidate Misspells Washington In
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post from Crooks and Liars on 08 March 2008 05:25:51 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Blue Indiana: (h/t Jamie)So, let’s say you’re a long-shot congressional candidate who no one wants to invest in, so you’re financially screwed. You finally scrap together enough coin to run a last-second television advertisement. This is your one shot to take to the airwaves with your message that you, Jon Elrod, are the [...]

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First We'll Get Really Stoned

post from Eschaton on 08 March 2008 05:14:00 PM. © Eschaton

I've been trying to come up with words to describe this...

video details and more

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More insults from Camp Clinton

post from Daily Kos on 08 March 2008 05:12:45 PM. © Daily Kos

And here we go again.

One Clinton aide yesterday derided Mr Obama’s victories in "boutique" caucus states rather than the hardscrabble terrain of the rustbelt, saying: "Obama has won the small caucus states with the latte-sipping crowd. They don’t need a president, they need a feeling."

Really, why don't Clinton and McCain get a room already? They're all using the same arguments.

Even if those arguments are so darn stupid.

The rust belt is (from west to east) the states bordering the great lakes: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Of those states that have had a real contest, Obama won two (WI and IL), Clinton won two (OH, NY), IN and PA is pending, and MI is still trying to figure out how to have a real contest. Not exactly dominant

And what the heck is up with the "latte-sipping" crap?

Here's the map, Obama states in Blue, Clinton states in Red (because she and her campaign have fallen in love with right-wing McCain frames). (And yes, I'm giving Clinton Texas and Nevada for winning the popular vote in those states, even though she ultimately lost them in delegates):

I see latte- drinking states on Clinton's camp -- California and New York! What an idiotic way to insult a bunch of states. And "boutique" states? Cute. Again with the "only big states matter" b.s.

That's why Obama is the far stronger national candidate. He respects the entire country, not just a select few "pre-approved" and "sanctioned" Clinton states. An assertion proven by the last SUSA poll, which proved not just a clearer path to the White House for Obama, but showed that he runs tighter even in states he loses. That matters at the presidential level, forcing Republicans to spend meager resources defending supposedly safe territory.

And it matters at the state level, making it easier for federal and state candidates to overcome the disadvantages at the top of the ticket. So looking at states with Senate races this fall, in Idaho, for example, it's the difference between overcoming a 13-point Obama deficit and a 36-point Clinton deficit. In Colorado, it's the difference between overcoming a 6-point Clinton loss, and riding a 9-point Obama victory. In Alaska, it's the difference between overcoming a 5-point Obama loss, and a 22-point Clinton loss. In Nebraska, it's the difference between a 3-point Obama loss, and a 27-point Clinton loss. In New Hampshire, it's the difference between an 8-point Clinton loss and 2-point Obama victory. In Oregon it's the difference between a 5-point Clinton loss, and a 8-point Obama victory. In Texas it's the difference between a seven-point Clinton loss, and a 1-point Obama loss. In Wyoming, where we have a hot House at-large race, it's the difference between a 33-point Clinton loss and a 19-point Obama loss, and same thing in Montana, it's the difference between a 20-point Clinton loss and an 8-point Obama loss.

We have more at stake this fall than the presidency, and we have a candidate that is running nationwide and showing proper deference and respect for our great United States of America, and we have another that has given the middle finger to much of the country.

That's why I've become an enthusiastic Obama supporter after being detached for most of this race. Because I'm looking to the candidate who is building a national party, not the one that continues to disrespect most of it.

p.s. For fun, here's the projected results of the rest of the primary contests per the CW, assuming new contests in Florida and Michigan:

Michigan and Indiana are the two tossups of the bunch.

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bioTrekker, Showing You can Drive an RV and Still
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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dr. Susan Wicklund

(Please welcome in the comments Dr. Susan Wicklund, author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor -- jh)I consider this book a must-read for anyone who considers him or herself pro-choice. Well, and for anyone who considers himself[...]

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Holy Cow! Barack Wins Wyoming!

OMG. It is looking like another victory in an unlikely place for Barack Obama as he wins the Wyoming caucuses. This is especially sweet because the Clintons finally went there to campaign and ask for the votes of Wyoming democrats. Apparently it was too little too late. And apparently they are unmoved by 3:00 am phone ads out in the wild, wild west.

NPR reported yesterday that Obama WON TEXAS. California certified their primary and the result is a net gain of 8 delegates for Obama. Since March 1st, 11 superdelegates have declared for Obama (1 for Clinton). People, now can we settle down, follow Barack's lead and stay calm while the Clinton noise machine rages on and on and on around us? Quiet as the MSM likes to keep it, our guy is winning. This is just the same game they played with Mike Huckabee for weeks at a time. They have money to make if they can keep us believeing this thing is even close.

I am not fooled. I wasn't fooled by embedded reporters and shock and awe. I'm not fooled by the Clinton as 'come back kid' message. And frankly, now that she has overplayed her hand with the John McCain worship, I am not terribly worried about what the superdelegates will do.

Don't worry about Pennsylvania. She will win Pennsylvania, but not by enough. Just like she won Ohio, but not by enough. After all the expense and negativity, after taking a torch to her street cred as a democrat, she managed to net 1 delegate for the day.

But enough about her.

Barack won a caucus in Wyoming. For a lot of black people, wins in states like Wyoming are a direct challenge to our world view. I find myself questioning everything I have thought is true about white people. In fact, I am starting to believe my own rhetoric. Maybe there really is no such group as 'white people'. Because it seems that farmers and factory workers are better distinguishing markers. It seems that progressives and conservatives are better markers. It seems that party regulars and newcomers makes more sense than to just look at people and call them white. Today is a great day for me. It is the day when I stopped hoping this was true and started knowing it is true.

If Barack Obama does nothing else this election cycle, He will have set many people free both emotionally and intellectualy.

Wyoming.

Wow.

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