How Obama WON Tuesday - Clinton's net gain in delegates was exactly Zero

[powergirl]

Underneath the hype, Obama wins it and he wins big.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-collis/how-obama-won-tuesday_b_101669.html


"Hillary argues that West Virginia and its massively huge five electoral votes is a key swing state for the general election. Democrats, she says, haven't won the White House since 1916 without it. Let's review that list of Presidents: Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton.

"Know who else you don't see on that list? Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey and Michael Dukakis. They all also won WV, but lost anyway, as did Carter in 1980. So I wouldn't exactly call Mountain State success a Presidential predictor. What this history does indicate is that WV trends Democratic: since the Depression it has voted Republican only 5 times, and 4 of those were for incumbents."

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"Another truth that they won't tell you is the 10 delegates they picked up Tuesday were erased by the 8 superdelegates Obama picked up Monday and Tuesday, plus, in a stunning reversal, one of Hillary's PLEDGED delegates in Maryland announced a switch to Obama. So for Monday and Tuesday, Clinton's net gain in delegates is exactly zero. Her "impressive" win in West Virginia is a hollow victory.
The real victory Tuesday came in Mississippi's special election."


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"What all this drives home is that Obama's coattails are already gaining impressive victories for Congressional seats when he's not even the nominee yet. Childers' victory happened because people everywhere want change in Washington, and Obama is emblematic of that change.

"The real bellwether of success in November is not a traditionally Democratic state that sometimes votes Republican, but these traditionally Republican districts that are electing Democrats to Congress. THAT was the real election, the only meaningful election, on Tuesday.

"And Obama won it."




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[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I LOL'd at this part. Chip is a very good writer.

"Hillary Clinton ended Tuesday night with a big victory in West Virginia, showing once again that old, white, poor, uneducated people really don't like young, witty, urbane, well-educated black men. Quelle surprise."

It's funny, cuz it's true.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. So much for the wave of momentum Hillary is suppose to be

riding. She's going nowhere.

[Cheap_Trick]

3. love your Moral Orel avatar

truly a twisted show, almost as much as Drawn Together..

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

[hill_win_2008]

5. WHAT?

This is like us Hillary supporters saying she really won Hawaii. Talk about delusional.

Look, she won big in WV, let it go at that.

[TexasObserver]

6. Math hates Hillary!!

Math is so sexist.