Insomnia ([info]insomnia) wrote,
@ 2008-03-06 23:43:00
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It's like getting two for the price of one!

Clinton/Limbaugh '08!

"Keep Chaos Alive!" - Rush Limbaugh

This after Limbaugh's advice to Republicans to vote for Hillary apparently helped shift the Republican vote considerably in Texas and Ohio as compared to several other states, essentially negating Obama's prior clear advantage amongst defecting Republicans.

 
Let's face it... if you're a Republican talk radio jock, supporting Hillary is just plain good for business!

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I refuse
[info]papananook
2008-03-06 08:48 am UTC (link)
to even listen to one sentence from that blowhard--he's just a waste of space on the planet.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-06 08:59 am UTC (link)


Bottom line: It'll take the convention to determine Democratic nominee

But even as the candidates tried to decipher the daunting math required to lock up the closest Democratic presidential race in a half-century, their surrogates squabbled over which candidate actually won the most delegates in Texas.

The Lone Star State's complicated delegate-selection methods gave both campaigns a plausible reason to claim victory. In final, unofficial results, Clinton won the popular vote, 51 percent to 48 percent. But Obama backers boasted that the Illinois senator had won a majority of the state's pledged delegates — a result of his ability to mobilize supporters in the evening caucuses, which account for about one-third of the delegates selected Tuesday.

"It could be our Texas version of 'Dewey Defeats Truman,' " said Waco Rep. Chet Edwards, an Obama supporter, referring to the infamous Chicago Tribune headline that misstated the 1948 election results. "After all the confetti and uncorked champagne bottles, it could turn out that Obama won Texas."

Projections released Wednesday afternoon by the Texas Democratic Party based on still-incomplete caucus returns indicated that Obama would receive 98 delegates elected Tuesday to Clinton's 95.

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[info]insomnia
2008-03-06 03:38 pm UTC (link)
The idea that it will necessarily take the convention to do it is somewhat misleading. Really, it will take the superdelegates to decide it. That's an entirely different thing altogether.

IF the superdelegates stepped in, this could all be over with very shortly... and there are reasons to suspect they might step in, before the convention.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-06 07:39 pm UTC (link)
The idea that it will necessarily take the convention to do it is somewhat misleading.

I agree. I posted the article because it discusses that Hillary didn't do as well as she's selling. I wonder what's taking so long to report the rest of the Texas vote - perhaps it has something to do with the fact they come from primarily black districts?

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[info]snuh
2008-03-07 05:40 am UTC (link)
It's pretty much over with the latest developments:

Dems can't win without superdelegates
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton won't catch Barack Obama in the race for Democratic delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses, even if she wins every remaining contest.

Before she was the only name on the ballot in Michigan. She wanted those results to count, not a new vote:

BREAKING: MI Caucus Likely, Says DNC Rules Committee Member
A member of the DNC's Rules And Bylaws Committee--the committee that stripped Florida and Michigan of its delegates for moving their primaries before February 5th--told me that Michigan plans to get out of its uncounted delegate problem by announcing a new caucus in the next few days.

"They want to play. They know how to do caucuses," the DNC source said. "That was their plan all along, before they got cute with the primary."

Michigan Democrats had originally planned on caucuses after the legally permissible Feb. 5 date, but then went along with top elected Democrats, including Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who pushed for an early primary.

Hillary Clinton won that Jan. 15 primary, but was the only major candidate on the ballot. Barack Obama and John Edwards had removed their names, although Obama supporters in the state urged voters to choose “uncommitted” over Clinton. Forty percent of the voters that day did just that, compared to 55 percent who voted for her.

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[info]chuckdarwin
2008-03-06 10:41 am UTC (link)
Do you really think that he was able to affect people's votes?

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[info]insomnia
2008-03-06 03:42 pm UTC (link)
The statistics indicate that yes, he did have an effect of shifting the votes of previously registered Republicans in the Democratic primaries by about 15-20% in the most recent elections. They had a good breakdown of this effect the other day in Politico.com.

Why *wouldn't* he have such an effect? He's the biggest radio show of his kind out there, with a rabid national audience?

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[info]eurisko97
2008-03-11 09:15 am UTC (link)
"When Rupert treats me nicely, the liberals they get icy..."

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