Obama the big winner today
67% - 32% in Washington, where the largest group of delegates were today.
And reports that half the folks in Louisiana that showed up were black, and everywhere, enormous turnout, exceeding all expectations.
Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign, toning down expectations, pointed to March 4th for their next comparable performance. As I noted earlier, both Maine and Wisconsin will come before then and I’d normally expect Clinton to win both. An Obama upset in those two would not bode well for Clinton on March 4th.
10 pm Update: Counting superdelegates, where Clinton has a 92 delegate edge, she leads by 1100 to 1039 overall. Which means, with his impressive wins today, Obama leads by 31 regular pledged delegates. As he gained 38 more delegates than Hillary today, that entire lead was created today. As New Mexico counts its last 1%, that could change by 2 or 3 delegates, but that’s how things stand right now.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Hillary will not win Wisconsin.
February 9th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
My god, it’s Saturday, and so I must be for Obama!?!
He’s just the most amazing speaker. I caught the VA Jeff/Jack speech, and it was terrific.
Colin Powell might endorse him, which cuts both ways for me. Hillary all but offered Edwards a job today, saying she’d call on him to serve in her administration — which means she might as well have had Bill call me on the phone and ask personally for my vote. That got my attention.
Obama, however, sounded like he was delivering Edwards’ stump speech at the end, hitting all John’s themes — just with better style than anyone else can.
And when he called himself a “hope monger” but that he knew the reality that the drug and insurance companies wouldn’t give up easily — and I had this sick thought: We learned from Bush that if they want to, President’s can create their own reality — right?
I’m going to wear out my flip-flops. But for the next few hours, I’m on the ObamaBus/
(Besides, no one’s name lends itself to more silly compound puns….)