A great night for Obama, for sure, although I'm expecting this race to go on for quite a long time. Thrilled that Barack won Minnesota, especially by such a wide margin, as well as Connecticut, to prevent a Northeast sweep by Hillary. Also good to see him win lots of middle America- if Barack is the nominee, I just know he'll peel off a handful of red states. Another excellent speech as well; I love ""We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For" as a slogan almost as much as "Yes We Can."
On the GOP side, I'm thrilled to see Romney's campaign implode, to the point where he actually bragged that he'd won all three of his home states (Hillary, losing Illinois, only pulled two out of three.) It's just so wonderful that, while it looks like McCain win ultimately win the nomination, none of three remaining GOPers are remotely capable of bringing out the base the way the Republicans need to win a general election this year.
Chuck Todd, on MSNBC right now, is using a dry-erase board to add up the delegates and has it pretty much 50/50 for the night between the two Democrats. All fine and good, but where's Tim Russert's dry-erase board?
Posted by Stephen Silver at February 6, 2008 12:52 AMWhile Chuck Todd is calling it a draw, Fox is calling it a win for Hillary, with a totally different delegate count than MSNBC is using.
Posted by: Alan Silver at February 6, 2008 01:34 AMFox News is calling it a win for Hillary because Republicans know their only shot in the general election is vs. Hillary. The Republicans have figured this out, why haven't the Democrats in states like California, New York, New Jersey, etc. Obama is electable! Figure it out Dems!
Posted by: Matt at February 6, 2008 02:12 AMThe Dems need unifying as well. If you read the news today, in CA and NY, Latinos and Asians and white women voted overwhelming for Hillary and not Obama. If Omana gets the nom, he better pick a really good running mate that will solidify the votes.
Posted by: A at February 6, 2008 01:04 PMYES i saw the Chuck Todd/telestrator predictions, he called it a split, with Obama finishing with 4 more delegates than Hillary after all was said and done. He was Madden-esque in his use of that telestrator.
Posted by: LilB at February 6, 2008 01:57 PM