Wisconsin & Hawaii Democratic Results Discussion

[Lief 🗽]

Oh my God, my State Senator is on the TV.

I love Kirk Watson.

[Person Man]

57-42 63% in

His lead is wide.

[Verily]

Obama is doing better in Milwaukee and the blue collar counties than he is in Waukesha and most of the affluent Milwaukee suburbs. That's strange.

Milwaukee County is 25% black.

District results suggest this breakdown (all in favor of Obama):

WI-01: 3-3
WI-02: 5-3, might end up as 6-2
WI-03: 3-3
WI-04: 4-2
WI-05: 3-2
WI-06: 3-2
WI-07: 3-3
WI-08: 3-3

Net result: O+6, plus whatever margin he wins by state-wide.

[TheresNoMoney]

Oh my God, my State Senator is on the TV.

I love Kirk Watson.

And he just made a complete ass of himself. I would've been a much better spokesman for Barack Obama.

[CultureKing]

Is there anything important in Texas downballot this year? No statewide offices.

There will be Railroad Commissioner and Senator - neither of which will be interesting.

Because it's local, the two things I've thinking of are:  1) TX-22 primary and 2) a whole host of Republican county race primaries in Harris County that have received a lot of press in the papers over the past few months. (mostly bad)

Railroad commissioner?

[exopolitician]

Oh my God, my State Senator is on the TV.

I love Kirk Watson.

Hes getting bitched out by this very obnoxious black lady that I have no clue who she is...though hes not doing so hot either.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

+10 delegates for Obama with the current numbers. Will likely change but definitely a severe blow to Hillary.

[J. J.]

Clinton will have to win TX reasonably big to stay in the race.  I don't think she will.

[TheresNoMoney]

I can't believe that guy is a State Senator and Obama supporter and he knows nothing about his legislative record.

I mean, the ethics reform bill he passed as well as the public website of earmarks bill (with Tom Coburn) are two fairly obvious ones that all Obama supporters should know about. And he passed a lot of important bills in the IL legislature.

[Torie]

It would have been a pretty close election on the Dem side without the GOP crossover.

Obama is going to win Wisconsin by a 13%-16% margin. It's ridiculous to claim that it was because of GOP crossover.

OK, whatever. I made my case that the margin would have been considerably narrower without Pubbie action. You just say I am wrong. How helpful.

[Sam Spade]

Is there anything important in Texas downballot this year? No statewide offices.

There will be Railroad Commissioner and Senator - neither of which will be interesting.

Because it's local, the two things I've thinking of are:  1) TX-22 primary and 2) a whole host of Republican county race primaries in Harris County that have received a lot of press in the papers over the past few months. (mostly bad)

Railroad commissioner?

Yep.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It would have been a pretty close election on the Dem side without the GOP crossover.

Obama is going to win Wisconsin by a 13%-16% margin. It's ridiculous to claim that it was because of GOP crossover.

OK, whatever. I made my case that the margin would have been considerably narrower without Pubbie action. You just say I am wrong. How helpful.

Why is Obama running lower in Waukesha and the GOP suburbs than the blue collar counties then?

[Lief 🗽]

CD1: O3, C3
CD2: O5, O3
CD3: O3, C3
CD4: O4, C2
CD5: O2, C1
CD6: O2, C1
CD7: O3, C3
CD8: O3, C3

Current numbers. If these hold, Obama also gets +2 super-delegates from the reps of CD3 and CD8 who promised to endorse the winner of their district.

[Lief 🗽]

Also, Matthews' question was ridiculous. Can anyone name anything that Clinton has accomplished? Voting for a war that's killed thousands, yes, but anything else?

[Person Man]

Clinton will have to win TX reasonably big to stay in the race.  I don't think she will.

and you were talking about the big Clinton comeback just today and yesterday.

[8 out of 11 is not deserved]

Ok; back to Nora as the anchor on MSNBC; lovely Nora

[Torie]

It would have been a pretty close election on the Dem side without the GOP crossover.

Obama is going to win Wisconsin by a 13%-16% margin. It's ridiculous to claim that it was because of GOP crossover.

OK, whatever. I made my case that the margin would have been considerably narrower without Pubbie action. You just say I am wrong. How helpful.

Why is Obama running lower in Waukesha and the GOP suburbs than the blue collar counties then?

Fair point. Maybe a bunch of Pubbies voted for Hillary.

[TheresNoMoney]

Also, Matthews' question was ridiculous. Can anyone name anything that Clinton has accomplished?

Obama is the only one who gets this question. McCain and Clinton always get (and will continue to get) a free pass.

The Senate has gotten almost NOTHING accomplished the past few years. The ethics bill co-sponsored by Obama is one of the very few major pieces of legislation passed in the past two years.

[Aizen]

Nora O'Donnel is so beautiful

[Lief 🗽]

Nora O'Donnel is so beautiful

Yes, yes she is. A Keith O/Norah O broadcast would be the best, I think.

[Keystone Phil]

The Senate has gotten almost NOTHING accomplished the past few years.

Thanks for that Democratic majority!

[TheresNoMoney]

Thanks for that Democratic majority!

Thanks to Bush for finding his veto pen whenever anything makes it to his desk. And the Senate didn't get anything postiive accomplished the 6 years they were in the majority with Bush as president!

[Torie]

Results by   CD for those who might be interested. Obama's margin is paper thin in two CD's. Someone else can figure out the delegates awarded for the Dems. On the GOP side, Huckabee is in the hunt in two CD's and six delegates

[Person Man]

Damn goppers and their fillibustering.

[Alcon]

About 8% reporting in Washington

Clinton 49%
Obama 48%