Anne Davies
Washington
February 13, 2008
DEMOCRAT presidential hopeful Barack Obama begins his assault on the next round of states with momentum on his side after massive wins in the Potomac primaries, which catapulted him to the lead on the delegate count and showed he was winning over Senator Hillary Clinton's support base.
Polls were kept open for an extra hour in the District of Columbia and Maryland after snow and icy conditions made roads treacherous. But even before they reported, it was clear that Senator Obama was heading for thumping victories.
In Virginia, expected to be Senator Clinton's strongest state, he outpolled her by 63% of the vote to 36%.
In Virginia, expected to be Senator Clinton's strongest state, he outpolled her by 63% of the vote to 36%.
Democratic analyst Donna Brazile said the Obama campaign had been expecting to win about 20 delegates in Virginia, but would now be closer to 30.
There is now no doubt that Senator Obama is ahead on delegates won at primaries, and he may even be ahead on the overall delegate count, which includes superdelegates — governors, party officials and former presidents who make up roughly 20% of the votes at the convention.
There is now no doubt that Senator Obama is ahead on delegates won at primaries, and he may even be ahead on the overall delegate count, which includes superdelegates — governors, party officials and former presidents who make up roughly 20% of the votes at the convention.
Some of these are yet to declare their hand.
But the most worrying signs for Senator Clinton were in the details of exit polls from Virginia. It has a much smaller African-American population than DC or Maryland — only about 20% — and so was seen as Senator Clinton's best chance.
But Senator Obama achieved his win with a significant white vote and a majority of the female vote, until now Senator Clinton's two strongest demographics.
According to CNN, Senator Obama got 48% of the white vote to Senator Clinton's 51%. Women in Virginia voted for him 58% to 42%, and he topped up his vote by winning 90% of African Americans.
In Maryland, Senator Obama won with 68% of the vote, while in DC, which has a majority African-American population, he won with 76%, making it eight wins in a row.
"This is what change looks like when it happens from the bottom up," he told roaring supporters in a huge rally in Madison, Wisconsin, where he is already campaigning. "This is the new American majority."
Ms Brazile said this showed Senator Obama was now a "transcendent" candidate.
5 comments:
The only way I can describe the words that Obama utters to his mindless followers strike me as "vapid vacuousness".
A for alliteration.
C for style, since vapid and vacuous mean the same thing.
It would be like calling George W. Bush an incompetent incompetent.
Or as we in the liberal blogosphere like to refer to him:
MISERABLE FAILURE
Ok where's the there there. That's much better
Only the followers of someone that would utter vapid and utterly vacuous campaign speeches would have the temerity to call one of the most successful presidents in recent history a miserable failure.
Bush has been able to defeat the democrats in Congess at every step along the way in their effort of defeat and retreat even now when they hold the majority.
Bush has completely ousted a dangerous rogue government right smack in the middle of the Middle East and then have the tyrant executed in less time then it takes to paint the names of all the people Saddam Hussein butchered on a billboards that would strech the length and breadth of that country.
Bush has shown so-called progressives (which is just another version of the word liberal)what it means to take decisive action to end a threat that most of the world believed Hussein to be including the former president, vice president, first lady and Senator from NY, the former presidential candidate from the State of Masschusetts, a former vice presidential candidate from the State of Conneticut and most members of the House of Representatives and the US Senate.
We could also mention tossing out a regime in a nation that brought the Soviet Union to it's knees less than twenty years ago with one quarter the amount of troops in one tenth of the time the Soviets used to attempt to do the same thing we have already accomplished. So if your definiton of miserable failure includes all of the above I guess he was.
Bush will always have his revisionists and apologists. They are approximately 28% of the voting population, which is quite meager in this country. Everyone else has faced the grim reality of his miserable leadership and what it has done to this country.
Remember the Europeans who admired Mussolini because he made the trains run on time? Well he did.
That, however, didn't change the fact that he was not a good leader and was a disaster for Italy.
Bush may have accomplished one or two good things in the 8 years of his presidency, (6 of which he had control of both houses of Congress) but his failures are what he'll be remembered for.
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