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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - Posts
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There’s a reason both the Clinton and Obama campaigns held conference calls at 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. It’s the same reason Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton, and Mitt Romney gave their speeches around then, rather than waiting to see the rest of the results: Read More...
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Phew—at least Barack Obama won one state in the northeast. After losses in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey, Obama knocked out a win in Connecticut. And while it was by only the slimmest of margins (looks like three percentage points Read More...
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Hillary Clinton's shout-out to American Samoa after her defeat to Barack Obama in the South Carolina primary looks like it was worth it. As the Politico reports , the U.S. territory's caucuses broke in Clinton's favor, 163-121 (that's total people, not Read More...
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Mike Huckabee, responding to a question about why he's still in the race if he won't win the nomination: "I'm not sure I would say it's so unlikely that we'll get the nomination. No one's got 1,191 delegates yet, and until they do, we're still in it. Read More...
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From David Plotz, a longtime friend of the blog and Slate 's Bible guru . Mike Huckabee managed to jam not one but two Bible references into the first four sentences of his victory speech tonight. First the former Baptist pastor mentioned the power of Read More...
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Exit polling conducted in Massachusetts and Missouri appears to have drastically overestimated Barack Obama’s performance, placing him within several percentage points of Hillary Clinton. With more than 50 percent of precincts reporting in Massachusetts Read More...
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As you’ll no doubt be reading in, oh, five seconds, the day belongs to John McCain. But Mike Huckabee has now won West Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama—a clean sweep of the Southern states. We knew he was strong in these primaries, but damn. That’s Read More...
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It seems John Edwards supporters in Oklahoma and Tennessee don't watch the news. Edwards, who dropped out of the race suspended his candidacy last week, is still pulling in double-digit support in Oklahoma and a relatively strong number in Tennesee. Despite Read More...
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Obama has two chances to blow the world’s mind tonight. One of them just passed him by. Hillary took her home state of New York, as expected. (As a colleague put it, “How many home states does she have?”) Obama’s camp was hoping he might surprise people. Read More...
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The Clinton campaign is shameless in its gloating. Staffers just sent out another "surrogate talking points" memo that presumes Clinton has won Massachusetts, even though no major news outlet has called the race for her—calling it "one of the biggest Read More...
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Back-to-back press releases from Mike Huckabee: Mike Huckabee Wins First Super Tuesday Contest Former Arkansas Governor Wins All of West Virginia's 18 At-Large Delegates Then this: Mike Huckabee Offers His Condolences After Deadly Tornadoes Rip Through Read More...
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It was, all in all, a bad day for the apocalypse to strike the lower Midwest. Observe this map from the National Weather Service , compared with a map of the states with primaries and caucuses today, courtesy of our colleagues at the Washington Post . Read More...
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CNN just called a slew of states for McCain, Clinton, and Obama. Here's why none of them are suprising: Connecticut, New Jersey for McCain: McCain had Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani backing him. Oklahoma for Clinton: Read More...
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CNN hasn’t called the Republican race in Georgia yet—with less than 1 percent of precincts reporting, it’s tight between McCain, Romney, and Huckabee (just as predicted ). But they can’t stop us from looking at their notoriously iffy exit polls ! Hey, Read More...
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Let the extrapolations begin. Barack Obama absolutely destroyed Hillary Clinton in Georgia, according to CNN’s exit polls . We offer our usual disclaimer about exit polls—that they aren’t actual votes—but these numbers are pretty juicy. Note: The numbers Read More...
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Rule of thumb for the next hour: Pay no attention to the bearded man on CNN. Mike Huckabee won West Virginia and made a respectable showing in Georgia, where Barack Obama appears to thoroughly trounced Hillary Clinton. The next round of states don’t close Read More...
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Were you unable to get into your polling station? Did some party grunt dump your ballot in the trash? Did your absentee ballot (like mine) never arrive? Report it! But first you have to decide who you're going to report it to . Both Obama and Clinton Read More...
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Fifteen minutes to go before returns start coming in, and CNN decides to tell us about ... tornadoes in Clinton, Ark. Never has weather and politics been such a natural match. But more important, what kind of omen is this for Hillary? Are the gods conspiring Read More...
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Last time Focus on the Family founder James Dobson stepped onto the public stage, it was to harrumph about the disastrous prospect of a Giuliani presidency. Now he’s back, but this time it’s the second presumed Republican front-runner he’s railing against. Read More...
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Transcribing Clinton spin is getting tiresome, but here's an addendum to yesterday's post about how the Clinton team is counting delegates. In a conference call today, communications director Howard Wolfson launched into a minihistory of delegate allocation. Read More...
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Poor Mitt. Even when he does something right, he still screws it up. Today at the West Virginia GOP convention , Mitt Romney finished in a strong first place--on the first ballot. Romney racked up 40.9 percent to Huckabee's 33.1 percent after the first Read More...
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CORRECTION Feb. 6, 1:05 p.m.: Well, I was wrong. Contrary to my original post, California's exit poll data did include a sample of early voters polled via the phone. From Associated Press' account of the methodology : There were 17,454 interviews of Democratic Read More...
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Back when there were more than two presidential candidates on the Democratic side, they liked to joke about wanting to see their opponents in the White House—“as my vice president!” You don’t hear that joke anymore, probably because the two survivors Read More...
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