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Washout Wednesday: The Tsunami Tuesday Aftermath

2/6/08, 3:35 am EST

  • Ding Dong. Mitt Romney’s dead.
  • Holy Huckabee. We were sure Huckabee was, ahem, cock-blocking Romney’s shot at the GOP nomination. It appears the dynamic was, in fact, reversed.
  • McCain now looks inevitable. But imagine for a moment that Huckabee had stolen Oklahoma an Missouri away from Mac last night. Then we’d truly be talking up the Huckabee resurrection … and the fact that the only Red state John McCain actually won was his home state of Arizona.
  • Clinton wins big in California. Delegates, shmelegates. She won the sexiest prize on the table tonight. Far from home. Convincingly. Thanks to overwhelming Hispanic support. Sí se puede.
  • Obama did what he needed to do tonight — he won in the blackest and the whitest contests. Kansas and Georgia. North Dakota and Alabama. Alaska and Delaware. The comparisons to Jesse Jackson are over.
  • He emerged with not only a draw in delegates, but also cobbled together geographically impressive wins in bellwether Missouri, and in Clinton’s backyard, Connecticut.
  • While Obama has proven he’s not simply the black candidate, Clinton emerged tonight very much as the female candidate, with her margin of victory again and again coming from the votes of women.
  • John Edwards oddly picked up at least 5 percent of the vote in Arizona and California. Early absentee votes? Or stubborn voters?

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Jed Clampett | 2/8/2008, 12:39 pm EST

and under the same type of oppressive totalitarian regime.

DirtyDennis | 2/8/2008, 9:22 am EST

Wild Thing,

Considering John McCain a progressive does NOT make you a conservative. Try reactionary.

And how do you think that term evolved? Because people like you don’t create. You stagnate. You should be thankful for progressives. Otherwise, you’d still be living like those in Bagdhad or Chad.

ray | 2/7/2008, 8:38 pm EST

Good to see Romney go. McCain is a Hawk not a liberal. Bob Dole was right to try to settle the nut wing of His party down.

Jed Clampett | 2/7/2008, 12:50 pm EST

And that’s the scary part of the way these creatures think. If things don’t go their way, they are quite willing to destroy the whole thing. Rather than repair, modify, evolve, they choose destruction and a start from the begining. Seems they are married to the dark side of the force and nothing short of destruction will make them see the light.

Delta Wild Man | 2/7/2008, 9:55 am EST

Now it’s time to rebuild the Republican Party, or burn what’s left of it to the ground..
I care not which.
If I want Progressive, I’ve got the Democrat Party..
If I want Progressive, I’ve now got the Republican Party.
If I should want Conservative,,, well I, just like millions of others, have just been phuked!

Brian | 2/6/2008, 3:43 pm EST

Yeah, I didn’t vote in LA, but I brought a friend to a polling place and watched her struggle to get her vote counted. In the end, the best she got was a provisional ballot.

This is a big deal. Why is the press practically ignoring it?

DA in LA | 2/6/2008, 2:58 pm EST

Feel free to do a write up on the possible hundreds of thousands of independent ballots thrown out in LA County. Mine vote was not counted. Neither were the votes of 10 of my friends. ALL FOR OBAMA.

Courage campaign has been following the disaster.

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