Obama wins North Carolina by a healthy margin (the networks called it as soon as the polls closed, so that ought to be a safe bet), which at the end of the day even with a Clinton win in Indiana (likely, though not called yet) leads to the same story we had yesterday: Barack Obama has more delegates, more votes, and will be the Democratic nominee.
It’s like I need a macro for that instead of writing it out again and again.
The Clinton campaign is kind of like the kid who gets a ribbon for participation and thinks it entitles them to go to the state championship.
I don’t know what impresses me more, the fact that a candidate can talk to the electorate as though they’re adults and WIN, or that a member of a historically oppressed minority in a democratic country can be elected to represent all the people. (someone said that has never happened) A year ago I wouldn’t have believed in either of those possibilities.
Maybe it’s too early, but I feel like uncorking the champagne.
anotherbozo:
While Edwards was my first choice, Obama has done things I wouldn’t think were possible. We have a candidate who was against the war. And a candidate who was able to kick the Clinton machine’s ass. Now I know why Rethuglicans hate Obama so much. It’s more than just his skin color. It’s because he did something they could never do. He kicked a Clinton’s ass fair and square.
Well, they also hate him because they know he’s gonna kick THEIR sorry asses.
Democracy in action.
Peace.
Obama ‘08
I’m hoping Wellstone will finally admit Clinton is done. He had her winning big in Indiana and coming within 3% in North Carolina. Instead Obama won big in North Carolina and Clinton barely won Indiana.
She lost the nomination when she didn’t wrap things up on the first Super Tuesday. She didn’t have a plan to win the smaller states, and then she didn’t have the resources.
It was over for her the moment she took a page out of Rudy’s playbook and decided to only fight in the big states.
Uh…. McCain couldn’t break 80% in either Indiana…
http://www.intoxination.net/elections/68.html
or North Carolina…
http://www.intoxination.net/elections/69.html
What the fuck? Both states will be close enough that if one in ten Republicans don’t vote for him in November, or worse yet, vote against him, then you can’t win these states. One in ten might be too high, but one in twenty is not. And one in twenty makes it too close to call.
She lost the nomination when she didn’t wrap things up on the first Super Tuesday.
Which begs the counter-question to “Why can’t Obama close the deal?”
Why can’t (couldn’t) Hillary close the deal?