Jay Cost crunches creative numbers on Obama’s big win last night in Wisconsin and offers insights on whether it translates to unstoppable Obamomentum. The sample below shows Obama’s strength vs. Clinton across Wisconsin’s population density spectrum.
Jay’s bottom line: In Wisconsin, Obama cut deeply into Clinton’s usual demographic strongholds. It’s looking more and more like the Clinton machine has finally met its match.
Meanwhile, across the fruited plain in Washington, Mitt Romney, who “suspended” his campaign on Super Wednesday (the Wednesday after Super Tuesday), captured 20 percent of the Washington GOP vote:
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Bambi 02.20.08 at 1:02 pm
It’s hard not to be gleeful to see the clinton machine crash. When the same things are used against the dems that were used against the Repulicans a few years ago, and the dems thought it was great. I guess now the big clinton machine looks old and tired and rotten from the core. The scary thing is that obama has no experience and has no creds to his name. However, what in the heck is mccain going to look like against this young, fresh face (even if he does go on and on and on and on) and even if he doesn’t have a message? Apparently, the dems don’t care. Heaven help us.
I’d love to see Mitt as vp, but then I hope Mitt won’t go for it because they are polar opposites. Mitt is polished, good looking - a gentleman, and mccain is a bully. He is going to go down in flames and I don’t want Mitt to go down with him.
Now even last night mccain PRAISED the huckster for making him spend more money, more time and not being able to put together a national message yet. They deserve each other, but we don’t deserve either one of them. If huckelberry finally bows out and turns his delegates over to mccain, can’t you just see them holding each other in a loving grip? I can. Yuk!
Kurt Schulzke 02.20.08 at 1:13 pm
Can’t imagine McCain going for Huckabee as VP. Just doesn’t add much value. More likely Condi Rice, Kaye Baily H or even Libby Dole or Giuliani. Romney’d be nuts to go with McCain as VP. Better, I think, to stay away in the wilderness for four or eight years.
Bambi 02.20.08 at 3:07 pm
But Kurt, they love each other. Neither will say a bad thing about the other. Remember how they both jumped on Romney. In fact the huckster still does. You know they say mccain is jealous of Romney’s $. Well Romney earned it, mccain married it. So at least Romney is spending his own.
I’m thinking that mccain is thinking that huckabee will deliver the south.
I agree with you Mitt should stay as far away as he can, in order to not be washed away in the tidal wave of people voting for obama.
a. sandstrom 02.20.08 at 5:08 pm
The Dem candidate will be Obama. And he is as close to a non-citizen running for president as we have ever had. Beyond that, his father AND stepfather are Muslims. Between the two of them, he lived with a Muslim father for his first six years. White-wash it how ever anyone tries, he did attend a Muslim madrassa school. His mother was an unabashed Marxist. Michelle Obama is suddenly proud of her country for the first time in her adult life. Barack attended far left undergrad and grad schools and voted left of Clinton. What in the Sam Hill are we getting for our money — if we don’t hold our noses and vote for McCain? While that sticks badly in my craw, at least the case can be made that McCain is a loyal American.
Bambi 02.20.08 at 5:34 pm
But if he chooses huckabee, that will be the end as far as I’m concerned. Then we will have to choose from 2 marxist, far left (depending on whom he chooses for vp) and 2 left candidates.
I don’t trust mccain to do anything he says, sorry, he will reach across the aisle to pick his judges, because he won’t get a conservative through without the left agreeing. We are a joke! Glad we have the choice we have. NOT!!!!!!!
Kurt Schulzke 02.21.08 at 9:36 am
He won’t choose Huckabee because Huck doesn’t get him anything he doesn’t already have (few conservatives would really vote for Hillary or Obama over McCain) and Huck would hurt McCain pretty significantly among moderates in key states. He’s much more likely to pick one of the ladies or another governor like Pawlenty or Perry.