According to TPM’s Eric Kleefeld… In what will likely be taken as a sign of Republican Party disunity, presumptive nominee John McCain has lost this afternoon’s Kansas caucuses to Mike Huckabee — and it wasn’t even close. With 88% reporting, Huck has 60% to McCain’s 24%, followed by Ron Paul at 11%. Huckabee will almost [...]
With Barack winning the Maine caucus – where many believed Hillary was the favorite – that makes a clean sweep of all five events this weekend for Obama. In addition to Maine, he won Louisiana, Washington, Nebraska and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Huckabee won Kansas and Lousiana but McCain has been declared the winner in [...]
In the huge-circulation Sunday edition of The Washington Post, page C7, gives a handy guide for readers to find out where the candidates are campaigning. Listed are the campaign events for Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton going for his third term. A quick look at the number of campaign events for Barack [...]
3,500 unique readers this past week! Google’s ads are generating a little bit o’ income. Not bad. I like seeing the McCain and conservative ads up there. Happy to take their cash and provide a suitably ironic context for ‘em. Part of last week, I was updating the strip from the road so a few [...]
Obama has been ahead of Clinton in pledged delegates for a little while now. These are the delegates a candidate gets for winning primaries and caucuses. Despite Obama winning 19 contests to Clinton’s 10 and pulling ahead in the popular vote as well, Clinton had retained a lead through her support from Super Delegates. Super [...]
Apparently the lines were even worse earlier in the morning. It was sad to see about a dozen people give up and leave the line as I was waiting. The long wait did make me think about caucuses. One of the arguments against the caucus format is that it takes an hour or more and [...]
8:44pm ET: Continuing the Potomac Primary blogging after the above bit of comedy. 8:32pm ET: Clinton is expected to speak from El Paso, TX in the next 10-15 minutes. 8:29pm ET: NBC calling Virginia for McCain. It was a squeaker. Really good news for McCain. Really bad news for the right-wing noisemakers. 8:19pm ET: As [...]
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