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Willets Point Feb 05 2008 02:33 PM

Huckabee wins the WV convention, gaining 18 delegates. McCain supporters threw their support behind Huckabee to block Romney. Either they really hate Romney or think Huckabee is less of a threat later on, or both.

sharpie Feb 05 2008 02:38 PM

I'm sure that both is the correct answer.

AG/DC Feb 05 2008 02:43 PM

G-Fafif Feb 05 2008 02:44 PM

The surge in enthusiasm for the nominating process I keep hearing about seems to have overlooked my sleepy hamlet, or at least our polling place. No line. Never been a line. Never will be a line, I'm guessing. Good to exercise democracy anyhow. Seen one Obama button and three yard signs in the neighborhood, nothing for HRC, nothing for the GOP. Ergo, Barack in a landslide, judging by my unscientific survey.

metsguyinmichigan Feb 05 2008 02:49 PM

Is Obama a Cubs fan or Chisox fan?

Nymr83 Feb 05 2008 03:26 PM

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Is Obama a Cubs fan or Chisox fan? Would it make a difference? it not like he's a Yankee fan. (Hillary on the other hand likes all 31 teams... yeah, 31, she panders to Montreal fans incase there are any left in Vermont.)

Nymr83 Feb 05 2008 03:30 PM

]Candidate # of votes % of total # of delegates Huckabee 567 51.55% 18 Romney 521 47.36% 0 Exhibit A against winner-take-all primaries

Willets Point Feb 05 2008 03:53 PM

Nymr83 wrote: ]Candidate # of votes % of total # of delegates Huckabee 567 51.55% 18 Romney 521 47.36% 0 Exhibit A against winner-take-all primaries No kidding. G-Fafif, I expect all your neighbors were at the Giants victory parade.

G-Fafif Feb 05 2008 04:05 PM

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Is Obama a Cubs fan or Chisox fan? White Sox. South Sider all the way.

DocTee Feb 05 2008 06:11 PM

Steady stream of voters here. The electronic tally says I was #373 in my precinct to cast a ballot, and there are still three hours to go.

Frayed Knot Feb 06 2008 08:10 AM

So I caught a few minutes of George Snuffelupogous last night prior to poll-closing time and his take was that if Obama could whittle the delgate lead down to less than 60 it was good news for him; and if Hillary could increase hers to 120 or more it then she'd be tough to beat; and if the gap was between 60 & 120 then it was still anyone's race. Current standings has it as a +80 lead for Hillary - iow, right in that 'toss-up' range. I guess he's thinking that Obama's recent momentum means that a small-ish deficit in HRC's favor is the equivelent of a dead heat. Either that or he sees the upcoming contests as more Barack-friendly. And you can just see the collective media horde starting to work themselves into a collect frenzy over the possibility of a BROKERED CONVENTION!!!! They pray for this every four years even though only the most veteren of that group is old enough to have ever seen one.

sharpie Feb 06 2008 08:33 AM

I think on balance it was a good night for Obama as the next round of primaries/caucuses favor him [Looziana, Maryland-Virginia-DC, Washington (caucus), Maine (caucus)]. A little bit later is Wisconsin and then two weeks off before the next big day featuring Ohio, Texas, Mississippi and Vermont.