Hardly a shock but Hillary Clinton looks like she's going to win West Virginia. As has been mentioned before by this writer what is particularly disgusting is the shameless efforts by members of the national media to push the former First Lady out of the race.
Perhaps the most important factor in the coverage of Mountain State's primary is that after tonight Americans won't be subjected to cliche'd and hackneyed use of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by television producers and headline writers with their coverage.
So Obama is still being hailed as the presumptive presidential nominee. And that just may be. Tonight however Hillary burned Barack's CMA Award envelope...
If you're a country music fan (or Super Troopers fan) you get the analogy.
Of course the real theme song of tonight and with all the skullduggery that is no doubt taking place in the Democratic National Committee and both presidential campaigns the appropriate song for tonight comes from the Silver Fox himself, Charlie Rich.
No one knows what goes on behind closed doors...
Posted by DonWard at May 13, 2008 04:49 PM | Email ThisShe is waiting for 2012, when she can have that smug look on her face and that exaggerated head nodding and say, "I told you so." Then sail through the Democratic primaries.
Good news if you'd like to see McCain win the general elections. Bad news if you, like me, hope to never have to see Hillary in the national limelight again.
The only thing mysterious about all of this is how in the heck she manages to get white guys to vote for her. Even among Democrats. Hillary and her legions of disaffected extreme gender feminists (mostly bitter white women) are the worst thing to happen to men, fathers, and boys since ... well, gosh, there has never been anything worse.
Wright seems tame by comparison.
Posted by: bananaland on May 13, 2008 06:14 PMIf Republicans can't hold onto supposedly safe congressional seats in the reddest districts in red states, how can they avoid losing more ground in congress this fall?
Posted by: Richard Pope on May 13, 2008 07:12 PMThis would be a good race for an indy to run.
Anyone other than the Dems or the GOPs. had enough of both.
This would be a good race for an indy to run.
Anyone other than the Dems or the GOPs. had enough of both.
"With all precincts reporting, the Democratic nominee, Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers, defeated Republican Greg Davis, 54 to 46 percent. Childers was able to expand his three-point margin of victory from the race's first round of balloting last month -- even as he faced an onslaught of Republican attacks.
The victory marks the Democrats' third straight special election pickup in three months. It will be a serious blow to the Republican Party's already-flagging morale and will surely prompt a new round of finger-pointing among the already fractured GOP caucus."
If the Republican brand were dogfood, they would take it off the shelf.
States & elections won with 60% or more of the vote:
Barack Obama: 15 States + DC + VI:
* Virgin Islands (89.9%)
* Idaho (79%)
* Hawaii (76%)
* Alaska (75%)
* District of Columbia (75%)
* Kansas (74%)
* Washington (68%)
* Nebraska (68%)
* Minnesota (67%)
* Colorado (67%)
* Georgia (67%)
* Illinois (65%)
* Virginia (64%)
* Maryland (62%)
* North Dakota (61%)
* Wyoming (61%)
* Mississippi (61%)
Hillary Clinton: 2 States
* Arkansas (70%)
* West Virginia (??)
Pro-life, Pro-Gun, Anti-tax kicked out a RINO.
:-) A great conservative win, since I don't care about the label anymore, I'm just happy.
Posted by: John McDonald on May 13, 2008 11:11 PM