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Obama expands lead on Clinton in California(Romney widens lead in CA!-mine)
Reuters ^ | John Whitesides

Posted on 02/03/2008 10:38:49 PM PST by mtrott

"Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, led McCain 40 percent to 32 percent in California, where the margin of error was 3.3 percentage points"


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; ca2008; california; democrat; elections; hillary; obama; romney
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Perchance is this why Mitt is heading to CA? Notice the time of the article.
1 posted on 02/03/2008 10:38:50 PM PST by mtrott
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Romney 40% McCain 32%!!
Thats up from the Rasmussen tie of 38%. Go Mitt!
2 posted on 02/03/2008 10:45:10 PM PST by chaos_5
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Oh, also notice this is a “rolling poll” of three days, Friday, Sat, and Sunday. In a rolling poll, as each new day is added, the first day of the prior poll is dropped off.

This means that if there is a big shift going on, its effect will be minimized by the previous two days of the poll.


3 posted on 02/03/2008 10:45:21 PM PST by mtrott
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California is not a “winner-take-all” state, from my understanding, unfortunately (if I’m wrong, someone please correct me).

I want to see the delegate count move completely away from McCain.


4 posted on 02/03/2008 10:46:02 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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Probably, his site has not updated his visit to Southern California. We’ve been getting survey calls for the past few days. I have only been polled once before and that was years ago, in the past few days, we’ve had about 6 or more polling calls.


5 posted on 02/03/2008 10:46:28 PM PST by psjones (u)
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This FRisco FRedhead is voting for Mitt on Tuesday. You can put that in your temple undergarments, baby!


6 posted on 02/03/2008 10:47:59 PM PST by rogue yam
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I’ve been listening to talk radio (not a whole lot but an hour here and there) and most of the calls are anti McCain calls.


7 posted on 02/03/2008 10:48:09 PM PST by psjones (u)
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I hope it’s true, and think it may be because McCain has not handled the conservative backlash. But aren’t there polls ahowing the opposite in both paties? I’m also seeing Obama beating Clinton and visa versa depending on the poll.


8 posted on 02/03/2008 10:48:22 PM PST by Williams
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To: ConservativeMind

No, it is not. But, as stated in the article, “Romney winning California would give some Republicans pause when they look at McCain as the potential nominee.”


9 posted on 02/03/2008 10:48:54 PM PST by mtrott
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To: psjones

To be more specific, the calls have been anti McCain, pro Romney.


10 posted on 02/03/2008 10:49:47 PM PST by psjones (u)
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To: Williams
Well... he has my vote in the post.

A Twofer on Tuesday.

Both Shrillary and the McCaniac get their comeuppance.

11 posted on 02/03/2008 10:50:27 PM PST by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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And, it would help to give him more delegates and maybe get the media to quit trying to push McCain down our throats.


12 posted on 02/03/2008 10:50:44 PM PST by psjones (u)
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Who would have thought a few months ago Hillary would have to be fighting for her nomination and against a newbie like Obama. Bet she never dreamed of such a scenario. They were so arrogant to think they can send out Bill and have him be so divisive without the democrats blinking an eye.


13 posted on 02/03/2008 10:52:54 PM PST by psjones (u)
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To: ConservativeMind
“California is not a “winner-take-all” state, from my understanding, unfortunately (if I’m wrong, someone please correct me).”

Under the California systems candidates get 3 delegates for every congressional district they win, and the statewide leader gets 11 bonus delegates.

The system is pretty messed up as a candidate gets as many delegates for winning a San Francisco district with almost no Republicans as he does for winning the most heavily Republican of Orange County districts.

In other words, the more Democrat the area you live in, the more your vote counts.

14 posted on 02/03/2008 10:55:00 PM PST by Moral Hazard (Fred Thompson/Joe Don Baker in 08, because America needs bald, beefy character actors!)
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LOL


15 posted on 02/03/2008 10:57:33 PM PST by Matchett-PI (Thompson needs to come out for Romney NOW to stop McCain!!)
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Sweet! The McCainiacs may do a lot of sweating in the next 36 hours..... I wondered whether having Arnold endorse McCain and Mrs. Arnold-Kennedy endorse Obama might backfire..... remind all the conservatives and even a lot of moderates who are conservative on borders, defense, and economics that the Arnold-Kennedy-McCain axis is more liberal than conservative on many many issues......


16 posted on 02/03/2008 10:59:15 PM PST by Enchante (Hillary Clinton: As a little girl near Chicago I always dreamed of the NY Giants in the SuperBowl!!)
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To: mtrott

Unfortunately, it won’t help those voting in a Super Tuesday state until the following day.

Bummer.


17 posted on 02/03/2008 11:03:30 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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"Who would have thought a few months ago Hillary would have to be fighting for her nomination and against a newbie like Obama. Bet she never dreamed of such a scenario. They were so arrogant to think they can send out Bill and have him be so divisive without the democrats blinking an eye.

Yeah....and the stupid dims moved up the primaries....so its day after tomorrow voting and shrillary doesn't have enough time to play the dirty tricks.

I bet the ash-trays are flying fast and furious tonight.

I guess they will blame Karl Rove.

Strategery + Schardenfreude = Stratenshardenfreudery.

18 posted on 02/03/2008 11:03:44 PM PST by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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Romney 40% McCain 32%

That is excellent, first Maine and now California appears to be saying no thanks to McCain. How about Georgia and Missouri now? :)

19 posted on 02/03/2008 11:06:52 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: ConservativeMind
It is "winner take all" in a way. The winner in each of 18 congressional districts "takes all" of the 3 votes allotted to each district.

The unfair thing about this system is that the voters in sparse GOP districts like San Francisco have the same weight as a heavily GOP district like Orange County.

20 posted on 02/03/2008 11:07:00 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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