Posted on 05/05/2008 11:21:08 PM PDT by MitchellC
Just voted for Obama in North Carolina.
Polls closing at 7PM?Reckon how long 'til we see the results for the 11th CD?
Welcome! ;^)
By Associated Press
Exit polls indicate the economy has been on voters’ minds in Democratic primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.
Two-thirds of Democratic primary voters in Indiana and nearly as many in North Carolina who were surveyed said the economy is the most important issue facing the nation. That’s more than have said so in 28 previous competitive Democratic primaries with exit polls this year.
Only about one in five in each state said Iraq was the top issue, and even fewer picked health care from a list of three issues.
Indiana’s Democratic primary is open to all voters. About one in five said they were independents and one in 10 identified themselves as Republican.
North Carolina’s Democratic primary was open only to voters registered Democratic or unaffiliated; nearly one in five voters in that contest called themselves independents.
North Carolina and Indiana are looking like the last chance for the Democratic candidates to take in a big chunk of pledged delegates.
Altogether, 187 delegates are at stake in the two states. After today, there are just 217 pledged delegates up for grabs in the six remaining contests, including 52 from Oregon.
North Carolina and Indiana can’t mathematically settle the nomination for either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton. A candidate needs 2,025 delegates to win, and — as of yesterday — Obama had 1,745.5 to Clinton’s 1,608.
The key to the nomination is held by superdelegates, of which about 220 are still undecided. Oregon has 13 total superdelegates.
Clinton’s main hope is to persuade most of the still-neutral superdelegates to disregard his lead in the delegate chase and support her instead. She is also hoping to get delegates from Michigan and Florida seated at this summer’s convention.
7:30. I hung on at mine until 7:00, a few minutes after the supporters of another County Commissioner candidate left :-).
You've been saying for months that Limbaugh is going to bring us the Clintons for eight more years and essentially doesn't know what he's doing. My fear is you have been and are wrong. If you had to pick the worst candidate of the three, you got it right. As painful as it is, I'd rather have Hillary than Obama and by a long shot. There's no way he's going to lose this and we need this to drag on to have a shot or we will have Obama as our President.
Barry and Michelle in the WH would make the Jimmy and Roslyn years seem like Happy Days.
News Talk 640 just came on the air at 7:30PM for the local Fayetteville/Cumberland County election results.
First in one stop voting, then the close in precincts and last the outer precincts.
One stop results over 17,000.
HRC 3,745
BHO 11,034
Above is early voting only.
Polls closed but people still in line to vote - those precincts will come in late.
You've been saying for months that Limbaugh is going to bring us the Clintons for eight more years and essentially doesn't know what he's doing. My fear is you have been and are wrong. If you had to pick the worst candidate of the three, you got it right. As painful as it is, I'd rather have Hillary than Obama and by a long shot. There's no way he's going to lose this and we need this to drag on to have a shot or we will have Obama as our President.“Just voted for Obama in North Carolina.”
We have to face the fact that John McCain is entirely capable of losing. But IMHO if there is anyone he should beat it is Obama. All he'd have to do is name a patriotic (i.e., a conservative) black to be VP and the contrast with Obama and his relation to Reverend Wright (et al) would edify the race remarkably. Just give the whites who are rooting for a black candidate because he's black an excuse to vote for someone who won't resurrect the "reparations" scam or try to name an all-black cabinet with a token white in it.Given that Obama has beat Hillary only, or very nearly only, in red states and that McCain is less conservative than Bush, in an Obama-McCain contest most of the country would be purple. It would therefore be very unstable, and it wouldn't take much to turn the race into an electoral college landslide. Much more probably a McCain landslide than an Obama one, IMHO.
Obama would be 'way behind Hillary if the rules of the Democratic Party reflected those of the electoral college.Basically Obama is a weak candidate with (considering that his forte is reading a TelePrompTer rather than debating extemporaneously) a glass jaw. If your criterion is who is easier to beat in the general election, my opinion is that of Ed Koch: if Obama wins the nomination he will not win the general election.
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/3170/en/summary.html
Crud...early results have Poirier and Tyson down...hopefully conservative areas report later...
Mike Huckabee, Fred Smith, Elizabeth Dole, Augustus Cho
It was my pleasure today to vote for McCain, BillyBob and Dole, among others.
Ack, not good. :( Unnnngh....
It appears North Carolina (20%) is ‘slooooow leaking’ the vote count versus Indiana (65%) to dramatize the percentage difference.
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