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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - Posts
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For a good half-hour there, John McCain’s campaign was having a coronary. Virginia was teetering between their candidate and Mike Huckabee. When it tipped, the state—and its 60 winner-take-all delegates—went to McCain. He ended up with 50 percent to Huckabee’s Read More...
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We knew the Democrats were more excited about their nomination race, but the Republicans' apathy reached new lows in Washington, D.C. With 88 percent of the precincts reporting, the Democratic turnout is 102,783, while the Republican turnout is 9,456 Read More...
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It’s difficult to remember, but it was Super Tuesday only one week ago. Since then we’ve seen 31 states and territories go to the polls and caucuses. In just seven days, Hillary Clinton went from in-control front-runner to holding-on-for-dear-life candidate. Read More...
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If God himself had designed a jurisdiction for the sole purpose of supporting Barack Obama, it might look something like Washington, D.C. The majority black population across the city, the elites in Georgetown, the college kids at GW and American—you Read More...
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Barack Obama’s win in Virginia is a small victory for Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine , who was the second governor in the country to endorse Obama. Kaine announced his support for Obama nearly a year ago, when the junior senator from Illinois gave the keynote Read More...
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Sure, exit polls are notoriously unreliable and they don’t matter, but they’re all the data we have for a while. So, let’s delve into the juicy stats from the surprisingly close GOP race in Virginia: At least one poll leading up to today's event showed Read More...
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Roughly 0.00003 seconds after declaring Virginia for Obama, CNN posts its exit polls . (Disclaimer: DON’T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ.) The main story is that Barack Obama has cut across demographics more than before by challenging Hillary among whites Read More...
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Barack Obama finally has a big-state primary win that the Clinton campaign can’t question. When he won the Illinois primary on Super Tuesday, it was because he had home-field advantage. When he beat her in Georgia it was because of the high number of Read More...
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One running sub-myth of the Clinton/Obama saga is that Obama is outnumbered. Hillary has Bill and Chelsea, the thinking goes, which gives her an edge on the campaign trail. She even had them touring as full surrogates in South Carolina. One of the campaign’s Read More...
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We will also admit that we had no idea Fred Thompson had endorsed John McCain. Maybe it’s because he released a stealth statement to the Associated Press on a Friday afternoon . That’s what you do when you resign after appearing on some escort-service Read More...
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Another Tuesday has arrived, which means we get to spend another night watching results crawl across cable news tickers. Before you snuggle up in front of the fireplace with Wolf , Matthews , or Brit , here are some things to keep an eye on. Can Hillary Read More...
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If you thought counting delegates was hard, try counting superdelegates. Scratch that — don’t. Politico is doing it for you . The project is a running tally of superdelegates, updated regularly as reports come in from news sources, readers, and the endorsers Read More...
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Slate ’s Josh Levin reports in with this dispatch: As I left my apartment in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., this morning, I passed a small group of vocal Obama supporters. Closer to my polling place, a neighborhood church, I spotted Read More...
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After waking up in Washington, D.C., today, Hillary Clinton is flying to Texas, while Barack Obama is flying to Wisconsin. Think of it as claiming their turf for the coming battles. But it’s not as simple as his-and-hers. Obama has won every contest since Read More...
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