Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Live blogging the Penn results

Hillary wins by at least 10%!!!
Senator Bob Casey gets his reputation handed to him.
Barack Obama sneaks out of Pennsylvania and speaks in Evansville tonite. He says it straight. He needs Indiana bad! Without Indiana he probably has to go to a brokered convention. IMHO


Live Blogged for the first couple hours:
7:37 p.m. with less than 1 percent reported Hillary leads 67-33 ... now wouldn't that be amazing?

7:44 can anyone say Operation Chaos? Still very low return returns, but Hillary holding with less than 1% at 65-35

7:46 Fox announces Hillary as winner. So, what's the margin, that's the real question

7:47 1% in and Hillary leads 60-40

Exit poll demographics are strongly Hillary for seniors and unions. Unions make up 1/3 of the voters.

7:51 3% in and Hillary leads 55-45, uh oh looks like thing are tightening fast

Lead is down to 6% with 14% in

18% in and it's holding at 6 points to Hillary's favor. Will this firm up? Is 6% a solid enough win to gain her more super delegates? What happens in Indiana?

Ran across this while waiting for more returns:

The Weakest Link
from The Foundry by Conn Carroll
Earlier this month the New York Times reported: “It is not easy to draw a straight line from the slumping economy to the war in Iraq and a trade deal with Colombia, but Democrats are trying to connect those dots.” The Democrats star witness in linking the economy to Iraq is economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has a new book out titled “The Three Trillion Dollar War” (never mind that Stiglitz has already upped his claim to $5 trillion). While liberals have poll numbers that show some voters are buying his claims, Stieglitz’s economist colleagues are not.

So the democrats think they can win by calling small town residents bitter gun toating church goers, and then lie to them and tell them that Columbian outsourcing, Al Queda, and sub-prime mortgages were all the Republicans fault. I for one don't think there are that many stupid people in the US.

22% in and she's holding at 6%. I saw a minute ago on friend feed that exit polls projected it at 4% but we all know that for some reason people say they voted for Barack and some really dont. Can't quite figure that one out.

33% in and it swells to 8 points. Not bad Hillary

Approaching 50% and 8 points solid, will post final numbers in a while. Now for the analyzing

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm glad Hillary won, but how much is operation chaos and how much is the "bitter" comment? I've heard some speculate Hillary is trying to tank Obama so she can rerun in 2012. Seems an odd strategy but who the hell knows.