Wisconsin!
Another big night on the campaign trail. Things looked good for Obama going into today, but you wouldn't put it past the Clintons to pull out a squeaker. Wins for Obama tonight in Wisconsin and Hawaii would extend his string to 10-0 and put enormous pressure on Hillary. Stick around for some political chat, eh?
posted by gatorbob @ 8:48 PM
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Polls close in the Cheesehead State at 9 pm EST. No numbers trickling in yet. I'm popping between the Triple F and MSNBC's coverage. Should be an interesting evening.
McCain has won Wisconsin - big surprise - and is up on stage with the trophy wife behind him right now. I reckon the DNC should insist on having all of the debates in the fall after 9 p.m. because the old duffer clearly suffers as the evening gets long.
I've seen livelier crowds at a morgue. This is looking better and better for the Dems.
Not quite the nailbiter we'd expected. MSNBC has called it for Obama with less than 1% counted:
0% reporting
Barack Obama 323 61%
Hillary Clinton 200 38%
That's a big blow for Hillary. This was her kind of state: very white, blue collar. The kind of state the Clintons expected to win but it's gone for Obama by quite a margin. Wow!
1% reporting
Barack Obama 5,269 53%
Hillary Clinton 4,601 46%
Here comes Hills, with Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" playing in the background. As if she's ever worked a 9-5 shift. Sheesh!
Hillary's thanking a bunch of local yokels but the tone of her voice is "thanks but no thanks."
Wait a minute! She's in Youngstown, Ohio! Unbelievable. She keeps skipping town just ahead of a big loss only to lose again in the place where she pops up. She might think about sticking around in a state while it's still voting once in a while.
I'll give you a bold prediction. Hillary pulls out a close victory in Ohio but loses Texas. Over and out.
5% reporting
Barack Obama 25,814 56%
Hillary Clinton 20,173 43%
She really needs to lose the "Ready on Day One" line - it's not working for her. This "Commander in Chief" bollocks makes her sound like Maggie Thatcher.
This is interesting. Barack Obama is cutting into Hillary's time. They usually wait until the other is off-stage but maybe he's trying to give her the bum rush. Pretty audacious move on his part. Smug even.
The MSNBC producers are caught in a quandary for a moment, not sure which speech to carry, but in the end they're going for the winner of the evening. Wow, this is quite a moment. Hillary is quite literally dumped off air. The Obama crowd is going potty in the background.
And Obama is in Houston! Boy, the cheeseheads must be pissed.
7% reporting
Barack Obama 39,741 55%
Hillary Clinton 32,353 44%
Obama's speaking off the cuff tonight. Not nearly as poetic as usual. He sounds like a high school principal directing the buses out of the parking lot in the afternoon.
10% reporting
Barack Obama 51,701 54%
Hillary Clinton 42,316 45%
Obama's back on track now and the words are flowing out of him. He's making light of the Clinton campaign's negative research on his kindergarten papers and the supposed plagiarism.
More good news for the Dems. With about 15% of the vote counted, Obama has collected 90K votes, Clinton 70K votes and McCain less than 40K.
I wonder if these victories tonight will push John Edwards closer to endorsing Obama. Apparently they had a meeting in Chapel Hill over the weekend.
28% reporting
Barack Obama 158,422 56%
Hillary Clinton 122,751 43%
All Republicans 115,950
Look at those numbers! The Dems will walk it in the fall.
Thanks for reporting from Gatorland . . . I loved your post about Hillary speaking from the state she will next lose in . . . I'm off to bed to watch the rest of the coverage from undercover . . .
Cheers, Trev. The buzz on the yack shows this morning is that Hillary's campaign is all but over. Apparently she needs not only to win Texas, Ohio and Penn, she has to win them by more than 70% in order to make up the delegate gap. That's an extremely tall order. It's Obama's to lose at this point and I expect that every word he and wife wife utter in the next few weeks will be parsed and pounced on as evidence of evil.
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