Super Tuesday Super Thread

CNN calling New York for Clinton. 60+%

NJ for Clinton 57%.

Looks like Clinton beats Kennedy in Massachusettes 58%

Kennedy? :slight_smile:

Presumably it was a reference to his endorsement?

Yeah, the talking heads are playing this as an upset even though she had been favored in almost every poll (sometimes by 20%).

I’m beginning to think this is why big endorsements are sometimes best delayed. If Gore had endorsed Obama, for example, and then Clinton won in Tenn. (where she was heavily favored) Gore’s endorsement would be seen as a failure.

Complete aside as I’m watching CNN. These tornados look bad. Any dopers in the areas that were hit look after yourselves :frowning:

Ah, of course. I’ll take my slow thinking as a hint to go to bed. I suppose the results will be the same whether I observe them in real time or not.

Conservative…change?

“We’re going to uphold traditional values and policies…only different!”

Excuse me, it’s going to take me a while to bend my head around that little bit of doublespeak.

I liked the little jab at Huckabee not believing in photosynthesis in CNN. It got a chuckle out of me.

Guess that answers this question!

This might help.

It now looks like Obama has more states. Unfortunately, he has a lot of the smaller states, with fewer delegates. I hope he pulls out California…

For some reason I don’t understand, that link opens on the Republican results. Just click the Democrat link up top.

I believe that the decision to move the election earlier was also driven by the Republicans, who hold a majority in both houses and the governorship here in Florida. I suppose they could have held separate primaries, although that would have been very expensive and possibly not allowed under Florida law. And now the Republicans have pushed an anti-gay marriage bill onto the ballot for the Presidential election, which will get all of the bigots out to vote for the McCain/Huckabee ticket I see on the horizon. I think that ticket would be Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton here.

In purusing the CNN link, I noticed that the Democratic turnout is higher than that for the Republicans in every single state so far. This is to be expected in blue-leaning states like Massachusetts and Illinois, but how does one explain a higher Democratic turnout in Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, Delaware, etc.?

On CNN.com, they seem to have called CT for Obama. That’s a huge pickup for him (and I bet Phlosphr is beside himself).

Looks like Obama will take a 11-12 states, one or two more than Hillary. But with NY, NJ, MA, and maybe CA, Hillary looks strong to take both the popular vote and delegate count.

I think the delegates will still be very close–perhaps Hillary +60?

But much to my surprise, at least, has been the Republican race. Who woulda’ thunk Huckabee would do so well?

Yeah, That’s surprising me too. I thought after today it would have McCain just waiting for the technical formality of winning enough delegates. But it looks like there may still be a dogfight on that side too.

I know the exit polls are suspect, but the AZ exit poll looks very good for Obama among latinos. He closed the gap there pretty significantly. We’ll see if that applied to CA or not.

Man, Obama pretty much has the Midwest. Not to mention, he’s devouring Colorado. Who would have thunk?