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May 14, 2008 04:05 AM UTC
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I think Obama’s going to skip campaigning there when he’s the nominee. Check out this stuff courtesy of SLOG:
Per the exit polls:
And this doesn’t sound like a concession to me:
“Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia, mountain mama,
Take me home, Country Roads!”
She actually quotes the song in the video below.
a 90-10 blowout?
Who am I kidding, these insurmountable numbers have been looking her in the face since Feb. and she didn’t concede then nor will she concede now.
Anyone know what the turnout was like? Was it another record setting primary for the Democratic Party?
But I didn’t see Hillary then concede.
It was clear that Jesse Jackson was not going to win the nomination over Bill Clinton, but I don’t remember that he dropped out–I do remember for sure he was accorded opportunity to speak in prime time at the Dem Convention. It was important then to acknowledge his historic campaign and show respect to his supporters, even in a losing effort, and it is important to acknowledge the same things to Sen. Clinton now.
because his candidacy was more symbolic, and had done the same in ’88 and possibly even ’84. It seems like someone who’s way out of contention always stays in ’til the end, at least on the Dem side – I remember Hart doing that in ’84. This is the first time in my experience that it was this close between two contenders for this long.
seated in 1972, he might have taken the nomination. In 1976, Reagan was just over a hundred delegates short of Ford’s winning total and took the fight to a crucial Rules Committee vote at the convention.
But you’re right, this is the closest thing to a tie we’ve had in a long time.
When even after it was mathematically impossible for Kennedy to win (a point which the Obama-Clinton has not reach quite yet), Teddy continued his hopeless campaign all the way to the convention.
He made a last-ditch effort to have the delegates change the rules so that they’d be free to vote for him instead of Jimmy Carter, the candidate to whom most were pledge to vote as a result of their states’ primaries and caucuses.
Then, of course, there was the spectacle of Teddy’s behavior after Carter gave his acceptance speech, when he went up to the podium, acknowledge the applause of the delegates, but pointedly refused to shake Jimmy Carter’s hand as Carter rather pathetically chased him back and forth on stage, trying to get a handshake.
I knew that the ’80 election was cursed when they tried to do the convention balloon drop, but the nets were stuck and the balloons never dropped.
I don’t believe that HRC will sink to the level that Ted Kennedy did in 1980. I suspect that she will give a nice speech at the convention, endorse Obama, and more likely than not, shake his hand.
And let’s hope that the balloons at the Pepsi Center drop on cue.
but JFK-LBJ went to the Dem Convention. Also RFK-Humphrey was going to be a horserace down the stretch–and probably comparable level of conflict between party insiders and young turks as the HRC-BO contest, except for the tragic assassination of RFK. I didn’t fully understand at the time, but we lost a potentially great one there.
I was born in 1970 so those were before my time. Too little to be aware of the GOP race in ’76 too (pointed out by RG above), to say nothing of what happened in ’72. I guess that makes this the closest nomination race in 32 years, eh?
That was a lot like this year’s Democratic race, because it was so close and went all the way to the convention.
Reagan made this desperate attempt to sway some RINO delegates his way by announcing just before the convention that he had selected Richard Schwiecker, a liberal Repub from Pennsylvania, as his running mate.
It brought him virtually no additional delegates. The RINOs stayed with Ford, and some of the right wingers started wondering why their leader did such a thing.
Ford’s nomination was sealed because Miss. had something called the “unit rule” which required the entire delegation to vote as a block. It’s state chair announced for Ford, that put him over the top.
Is it worth pointing out that all these to-the-convention contests (’68 Dem, ’72 Dem, ’76 Repub, ’80 Dem) wound up losing the general election?
It’s also true each of those hewed along deep ideological divides within the parties, which isn’t the case this year.
If we have to look 30-40 years ago to find similarities, I wonder how similar these could really be, beyond being close. Of course, you’ve got to go back almost 60 years to find a lame-duck administration as broadly unpopular as this one. We really are in uncharted territory.
While he got hammered there tonight, the latest poll this week out of WV shows him down by only a point or so to McCain in West Virginia. Just because folks like Clinton better doesn’t mean they won’t vote for Obama in November.
The AP just called it for Childers with 80% reporting! This is amazing. And the GOP tried to use Obama as a smear against the Democrat. HA! What a backfire. When will the rethugs ever learn
a tough seat for us to win.
Shows how bad things are for the GOP. I’m starting to hope in the CD4
in case anyone is interested to see the incredible turnout the Democrat had in a race where the Republican had a +10 advantage.
is very similar to the Louisiana 6th and Mississippi 1st, in demographics, voter registration and past Republican/Bush performance. It’s definitely within reach.
I think Betsy is the best candidate we have ever had up against MM and this is going to be an even worse year than ’06 for Repubs.
So cool!!!
That is about 15 points higher than other states.
And the margin by which the Dem won means he’ll probably be able to hold the seat in Nov.
In addition, Childers was impervious to the GOP efforts to tie him to Obama and Wright!
In addition to the five or six seats the Dems pick up in the Senate in Nov., they gonna net 45 to 50 new House seats!
And closer to home, Betsy Markey needs to raise a lot of money; C.D. 4 is winnable in light of what happened in Miss. tonight!
Musgrave isn’t sleeping well tonight.
….to see if that job that was rumored to have been offered to her after the ’06 election is still available.
in a string of special-election contests where Cheney flew in to rally the base and wound up not helping. He snuck in to an afternoon fundraiser in Grand Junction for Bob Schaffer about a month ago. Will he surface again in Colorado?
So she capture nearly 70% of the vote of mosty white, non-college educated “hard working Americans” who believe that Obama shares Rev. Wrights opinions? Is that really her vision for George Bush’s ‘Merica? And two in ten said they voted on the basis of race? Please, we’re better than that.
We all have our pluses and minuses. And quite a few people are stuck in us vs them or wanting to find some way to make themselves seem better that some others.
It’s sad that we still have this. And that some sections of the country still hold on to it as a community. But over time people learn and communities improve and cultures advance.
We do need to say that we find these views abhorent. We do need to demand better of our politicians. But we also need to face the fact that these are fellow Americans.