Clinton and Obama's Super Tuesday in Indiana and North Carolina
Reader Comments
I will vote for McCain
I am an independent voter , centrist -left, who usually votes for democrats both in state and national elections. That is, I voted for McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Clinton, Gore, and Kerry (Kerry holding my nose). The exception was a vote for Bush #1 against Dukakis.
This year, if it is McCain versus Obama, I am voting McCain.
Why.
Obama is a phony. 1. He claims the ability to be non-partisant, but has never done anything to reach across party lines. 2. He claims to be a candiate who transcends race, but he sat there for 20 years and listened to the good Reverend Wright spew his hatred. 3. He is the most liberal senator in Washington.
There is nothing Obama can do to get my vote. McCain/Clinton would be a toss-up for me. McCain/Obama is a no-brainer.
McCain/Obama will be a repeat of Bush/Dukakis. The democratic establisment is too stupid to understand what they are getting with Obama, but smart politics is not something democrats so well.
goodbye Dems, hello McCain
If you think that most of Clinton supporters won't go for McCain your sadly mistaken.
Oklahoma is a red state and it is already geting redder, Almost 75% have already changed over to either IND. or REP. and i'm one of them. the Democrat party is split in half and Obama can not unite it.
I would rather have ROE V WADE overturned than have Babies born alive and then let them lay there and die.
I don't like Obama's buddies, Wright, Ayers, Meeks, Rashid Khalidi, Penny Prizker and President Ahmedinejad. AND the money that Obama has taken from the issuers of Subprime loans.
Obama = McCAIN
More whites Voted for Obama...
Obama will need to wait for at least another 8 years before his time of becoming President of the USA arrives. The American people are SMART and will require that he be seasoned first before giving him the crown.
GO OBAMA!!!
The tables are incorrect
In the first comment, Michael Karns noted that the data was confusing. It was confusing to me also.
That is because the data underneath the labels are revered.
The numbers for Wake County, for example, should be:
Obama %: 65
Black %: 20
Perhaps an editor will see this and make the correction.
Gee, Mr. Barone
What happened to Hillary's "Jacksonians" and all that other nonsense you spouted the past few weeks on how Hillary was going to come from behind and shock everyone with her popular vote victory?
Sorry, you didn't get Hillary to run against, which is what you and the rest of the Right clearly wanted. Instead, you get the charismatic 40 year old who is going to make McCain look awfully old.
Game not Over 'Till It's OVER...
I'm not an expert on this but from a layman's point of view, the Barack team and the Media are probably declaring this race over prematurely.
The last time I checked the formula goes like this:
Pledged Delegates + Superdelegates = Winner Nominee (2025 Total Delegates or 2209 Delegates if Florida and Michagan are included)
Barack Omaha hasn't reach that number yet. Also under the rules, these pledged delegates and Super Delegates are free to change their minds and switch around from one person to another at least until they formally make a final vote at the convention.
To prove a point and if we learned anything during the last few months, some Hillary's Super Delegates have already switched to Obama. And this is fine but what's preventing others from doing the same thing at a later time.
However, from now until the convention is held who are we to say that Hillary doesn't have a chance to the nomination.
Bottom line, until these delegates have casted their votes at the convention there's no telling how this race using a STUPID SYSTEM will play out.
Gee, Mr. Barone
What happened to Hillary's "Jacksonians" and all that other nonsense you spouted the past few weeks on how Hillary was going to come from behind and shock everyone with her popular vote victory?
Sorry, you didn't get Hillary to run against, which is what you and the rest of the Right clearly wanted. Instead, you get the charismatic 40 year old who is going to make McCain look awfully old.
ASTOUNDING FEAR AND IGNORANCE
As a psychotherapist, I am reading these comments confirming what I see every day in ordinary people--change and the unknown are necessary to growth. As a society we most grow--or die. We fear what we don't know and based on how much trust we have as individuals we anticipate the future with either terror and resort to panicky justifications or rationalizations to keep us in in a comfort zone--even if it is negative it is still known and therefore preferred.
We are a collective society that has endured the decay of an ignorant , frightened man afraid to trust (Bush) because he never had to deal with these issues. He was given everything and forced us all into subordinating to his peculiar justifications and rationalizations. We've paid a price and suffered. Barack Obama didn't just happen--if you have any faith at all in something bigger than all of us, you will realize that we created him and his message --'change'.
Those most frightened of change, future, unknown etc. are passionatley holding on to their myths , belief systems to keep the future from happening.All the justifications and rationalizations are amplified in many of the comments on here.They are nothing more than great resistance . The greater the resistance, the greater the change. The most anti Obama are the most fearful. Look within, if you dare. You may realize that it is not Obama you fear, but the fears you have in your life from moment to moment. Try, if you dare, to stop the desperate rejecting and myth building and let yourself move into the future. Wheter you like it or not--Barack Obama is in your future. Where do you want to put your energies--into hating, demeaing him or revering a woman like HRC who is brilliant, very capable but in the end hopelessly narcissistic, vain, manipulative and not truly the empathic soul needed to mend our country in this time
Transcript 506.23
*** BREAKING NEWS ***
Transcript 506.23
In a recent national poll, 77.23% of democrats are outraged with the bellicose attitude that Obama and Hillary are displaying in the presidential contest.
"The poll was conducted with a statistical error of +/- 3%. I was rather shocked to see how many democrats noted on the questionaire their desire to change to the Republican party this fall."
Do you really believe that many will switch, 77%?
"Well, not that many of course not, but based on 30 years of historical results you can count on 50% of them converting or say 35% or so to the Republican party."
That is an incrediably large number to switch over to the Republican party. Sounds like good news for the Republicans. Is there any way they could lose this cross over?
"Not really... the discord that Obama and Hillary have made has formed a based taste in viewers mind. The only thing I think that could change them back is if McCain doesnt tap Huckabee as his VP."
Why, I don't understand?
"Based on our polling, American's are overwhelming confident with McCain and Huckabee on the ticket. Their maturity in the presidential race running against each other showed the public, they got the superior skills to lead this nation."
End Transcript 506.23
Lake County Demographics Similar to Pittsburgh
I totally agree with your analysis. Growing up a Hoosier in Southern IN, and then living in Chicago for ten years, I went with my gut expecting a long night. I accepted a dinner invitation from a friend, returned home around 11:30, and turned on the TV to get relevant data. When I heard that Lake County had not reported, I knew Clinton won. Gary is, yes indeed, very heavily black. However, the remainder of the county is very blue-collar, working class white... similar to a Pittsburgh. When CNN would refer to it as "Chicago suburbs," I chuckled since few people in the Chicago area desire to live in Lake County with relatively few "young professional class" white neighborhoods that would embrace Obama. In doubt? Take a drive on the Skyway, an elevated interstate that traverses over Lake County, and you'll see. Abandoned steel mills, environmental eye-sores, tiny bungalow homes looking into polluted lakeshore and rail-lines.
