Sorta Super Saturday

The results are coming in for the four states that held primaries and caucuses today, and it looks like a solid Obama sweep and what could be a Huckabee sweep. Washington is the state to watch for a battle between McCain and Huckabee. Here are the numbers so far: Kansas 100% Reporting Huckabee- 60% McCain- [...]

Screw Voting: Why superdelegates might get to decide who wins

Since they were introduced in 1982, superdelegates have rarely been a very public controversy. Sure, they give a single person the same voting weight at the Democratic National Convention as an entire community, but usually they both end up voting for the front-runner candidate anyway. With such a closely contested race for the Democratic nomination, [...]

Obama could beat McCain; Hillary, however…may not be able to

Two separate polls have Barack Obama leading McCain, pictured above sharing a secret, by 7 and 8 points in a head-to-head match-up whereas Clinton would be virtually even with Johnny boy. The main difference is among men where McCain leads Clinton by 18 points. Also, people just plain don’t like Hillary Clinton; 44 percent of [...]

Slow and Steady: New Mexcio is still counting votes?

It’s no longer Super Tuesday. Hell, it isn’t even Ash Wednesday anymore. It is Saturday and after four days, New Mexico is still counting votes to decide if Obama or Clinton “won” the state. What the hell is going on down there? Well, it’s actually quite simple. The state is waiting to count more than [...]

Nebraska Caucus Updates

The Omaha World-Herald is doing live updates of the Nebraska caucuses there, so I highly recommend heading over to check that out. My favorite excerpt so far: 11:42 a.m. It doesn’t look good for Clinton at Monroe Middle School. The line to the Clinton box is empty. The line to vote for Obama is about [...]