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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - Posts

  • Opening the Blue Tide


    Last night Barack Obama won in a bunch of places Democrats don't have a history of winning in the general election. Georgia, Alabama, Utah, Colorado, Alaska, Idaho, and North Dakota all favored Bush over Kerry in 2004 and Obama over Clinton last night. Read More...
  • Brokering the Brokered


    We all woke up this morning with a delegate hangover—and it’s not going away anytime soon. The Feb. 5 delegate count is a mess , superdelegate questions abound , and whispers of a brokered convention persist . But there may be a cure-all on the horizon: Read More...
  • Whose Line Is It, Anyway?


    Slate intern Jonathan Rubin filed this dispatch after watching Obama's speech last night . Last night at a rally in Chicago, Barack Obama coined a new catch phrase . While talking about time spent as a young community organizer, he said he was surrounded Read More...
  • The Greatest Gift of All


    Today’s developing story—well, by now pretty well-developed—is the revelation that Hillary Clinton loaned $5 million of her own money to her campaign. Time ’s Mark Halperin first brought up the loan at a conference call this morning. Howard Wolfson said Read More...
  • Popular Vote, Polarized Vote


    In case you haven’t seen it, the Super Tuesday popular vote tally on the Democratic side is insanely close—like, within 100,000 votes or so. NBC puts it at: Clinton 48.97 percent (6,967,302) Obama 48.04 percent (6,835,447) Time says : Clinton: 50.2 percent Read More...
  • False Modesty


    Here’s the best part about the battle for front-runnership. Both candidates claim to have the delegate lead. (Obama says he’s ahead if you count only pledged delegates; Hillary says she’s winning if you include superdelegates.) But neither of them is Read More...
  • Delegate Count Chaos! (Updated)


    As if counting delegates weren’t confusing enough , news organizations are calculating their own totals. And they’re all different! Some, like the Associated Press and CNN , include projected delegates in caucuses like Iowa and Nevada, as well as superdelegates. Read More...
  • What Happened in Missouri?


    Count us among those who think Barack Obama's comeback win in Missouri was a moral victory, at best. The difference between losing by 1 percent and winning by 1 percent is negligible, but Obama still gets to brag about winning a key swing state, no matter Read More...
  • Good Day, Sunshine


    California results are still trickling in, but the networks have called it for Hillary. With 22 percent of precincts reporting, she’s got a 20-point lead of 54 to Obama’s 34. (See up-to-date results here .) Her actual delegate lead probably won't be huge, Read More...
  • The Mitt Reaper Awaits


    Mitt Romney's time has come. But will he admit it? Romney has won six primaries and caucuses tonight. None of them matters. The two primaries—Utah and Massachusetts—took place in his home state. Four caucuses—North Dakota, Colorado, Montana, and Minnesota—have Read More...
  • Learn To Count


    Both Clinton and Obama agree that this is a race about delegates. They just can’t agree on how to count. The two camps spent the last few days bickering over how many delegates each one had—Hillary’s camp insisted on including superdelegates, while Obama Read More...
  • Pollsters Protect Magic Algorithms


    A quick assessment of pre-election polling versus election results over at RealClearPolitics shows a typical sampling of accuracy and error in RCP's average of major polls. (See chart at end of post.) But social psychologist Jon Krosnick , a professor Read More...
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