As some of you may know, yesterday was an extremely significant event in the Political realm, a day rightfully named “Super Tuesday” (which by the way is preceded by Super Bowl Sunday – so a very super week, indeed).
From New York to California, Americans poured in to polling centers to voice their opinions in hopes to jumpstart their respective candidate’s race to the White House. With more than 40% of delegate votes being decided on this most grandiose of voting days, the electees-to-be had more than enough on the line in preparation for the November election. They came, they voted and when all was said and done- the Race was on.
Concerning the Democrats, it seems as if the Blue side of the country is torn- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton nearly split the delegates, with 571 and 580, respectively.On the Republican side of the matter, John McCain cleaned up shop taking 568 delegates, Mitt Romney snatched 176, Mike Huckabee 147 and in a dismal performance, Ron Paul took home 10 (which brings his unbelievable total to 16). Yesterday definitely lived up to its super duper name, and proved to be an insight into what the final election might look like.
So as it stands, the election looks like this: The Democrats, Obama and Clinton, are almost dead even. Obama now has a slight lead over Clinton with 838 total delegates to her 834. McCain has taken quite the lead on the Republican side, leaving Romney, Huckabee and Paul behind (in fact, I’m beginning to think Ron Paul’s campaign is some college gimmick because I’m not sure anyone even voted for him…poor guy).
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*Chart Taken From MSNBC.com
Oh Ron Paul! I was actually on campus the other day and passed a group of people chanting “Ron Paul revolution, give us back our constitution!” Apparently they forgot to go out and vote.
Did you hear about all the people in AZ getting turned away at the polls on Tuesday? There was a man at my old polling place who had voted there for over 10 years and they turned him away. Odd.
By: Jocelyn on February 14, 2008
at 11:06 am
What do you think about the differences in delegate speculation? CNN and NYTimes had Hillary over Obama, while AP and Reuters are predicting Obama over Hillary.
NYT finally added AP numbers beside there’s with some explanation, which helps, but I wonder how it affects perception of biases with newsources.
By: joshj on February 14, 2008
at 12:02 pm