NYT shows Kansas 72% Obama 28 Clinton with 52% reporting

[grantcart]

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/votes/index.html

[godai]

1. Holding there....36% 71/29 (CNN) n/t

[grantcart]

2. tks

[godai]

3. 42% 69/31 n/t

[moosen]

4. 68-32 now

[grantcart]

7. with 44% in they have to call it soon

[MidwestTransplant]

5. Must be because all the black voters are coming out for him...like Jesse

;)

[grantcart]

6. Also showing big lead in Minn

[Konza]

8. It was madness in our caucus here in KS

We had 1200 turn out 80% Obama. He took 6 of 7 delegates we had. Fun night even with the snow.

[VolcanoJen]

9. Very cool, Konza!

You should write up your KS Caucus story into a seperate post... we non-Super Tuesday staters would love to live vicariously!

[grantcart]

12. great were they all young people?

[Konza]

16. Our caucus was here

in the Student Union of Kansas State, so we had a huge turnout of young voters. But I'd say college students only made up 1/4 of the caucus goers, most were local folks. That said everyone was shocked at the turnout, given that we are having snow and sleet storms today and tonight. We only have about 2-3 inches of snow, but the roads are terrible slick so people were shocked at how many people actually came out. The folks I sat with and stood in line with were telling me they had never seen anything like this, except one professor who was talking about 1968. In January of 68 he said Dr. King spoke at K-State and a month later Bobby Kennedy spoke here and he thought it reminded him of those times. He said he hadn't seen so many kids engaged in politics since then. They were chanting in the halls, stairwells and out to the street.
At one point the lines to get in were crazy, circling around the stairwells, down through the student union, out onto the courtyard and then into the street!
This in tiny Manhattan, Kansas a blip of blue located in the middle of a red state.
The Obama crowd was a lot of fun to hang out with as everyone was pumped up and we clearly dominated the Hall. They had to slide out the dividers to open up the entire area, they clearly weren't expecting such a turnout. I wanted to take pictures but forgot my camera and by the time I remembered I was already trudging through the snow and looking at the line so I said forget it.
I kinda felt for the Hillary supporters because they were shocked at the size of things. The number to earn a delegate was around 160 or something and they had a just few over that line and thus got one delegate. If they would have had about 10 fewer supporters they would have been shut out entirely, so they were pretty freaked out by the scale of things. But everyone got along well. We even had one Ron Paul infiltrator who whipped out his sign and started screaming something, babbling some gibberish. About 1200 people burst into laughter simultaneously so he slunk away.
It took about an hour and was a lot of fun.

[godai]

13. Thanks for the report and your participation n/t

[book_worm]

10. I wish that the networks would call some of these caucus states

where Obama is winning big.

[HughMoran]

11. Yep, that's an expected Obama win

.

[grantcart]

14. margin is growing

[jasmine621]

15. Caucus state. I think caucus states should be outlawed.

They do not really reflect the majority of the voters' will.