Kerry's Super Tuesday
The early numbers. (Plus a redundant California numbers addendum.)
As the big boys at the network anchor desks might put it, "There's a big trend shaping up on Super Tuesday, and it's not a Dennis Kucinich surge!"
Up and down the Atlantic coast and inland to Ohio, John Kerry is fanny-whacking his opponents and packing his bags for the Boston convention, according to the weighted exit polls of one media organization. The only exception to the sweep is the fairy tale republic of Vermont, where the late Howard Dean has crawled out of his political grave to stake claim to the pittance of his state's 15 delegates.
Remember, these numbers are only tentative numbers, not necessarily predictive of the final results but used by media organizations to get a Tuesday afternoon handle on what may unfold by early Tuesday evening, when the Big Computer model analyzes the data.
Connecticut
Kerry 63
Edwards 26
Dean 5
Georgia
Kerry 50
Edwards 39
Sharpton 7
Maryland
Kerry 59
Edwards 28
Sharpton 4
Massachusetts
Kerry 75
Edwards 16
Dean 3
Kucinich 3
New York
Kerry 61
Edwards 21
Sharpton 10
Ohio
Kerry 58
Edwards 30
Kucinich 10
Rhode Island
Kerry 70
Edwards 21
Dean 5
Vermont
Dean 63
Kerry 33
Kucinich 3
(Edwards was not on the ballot)
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