Obama has won 8 primaries and 9 caucuses

[ProSense]

Primaries

Alabama 56%
Connecticut 51%
Delaware 53%
Georgia 67%
Illinois 65%
Missouri 49%
South Carolina 55%
Utah 57%

If he wins Louisiana, that would be his 9th primary win

Caucuses

Alaska 75%
Colorado 67%
Idaho 79%
Iowa 38%
Kansas 74%
Minnesota 67%
Nebraska 68%
North Dakota 61%
Washington 67%





edited typo

[stillrockin]

1. GOBAMA!!!

[neutron]

14. I think Clinton still has the delegates

[book_worm]

2. How true. He has won almost as many primaries as HRC while he has overwhelmed HRC in caucuses.

[Yossariant]

23. Yet she leads in delegates.

The cross-country Democratic presidential battle continues this weekend, with voters in four dispersed states weighing in.

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama seems to have the edge over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in all four contests, though a sweep likely wouldn't change the deadlocked nature of the race.

Sen. Obama trails Sen. Clinton in the delegate contest, according to the latest Associated Press tally, with 960 delegates to her 1,045. An additional 185 Democratic delegates are at stake this weekend. A total of 2,025 is needed to secure the nomination.

Sen. Obama is expected to benefit this weekend given his ability to mobilize legions of volunteers to draw people to caucuses, where turnout is the name of the game. Three of the four weekend votes are caucuses.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120251993978955735.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[scheming daemons]

32. Not after tonight's are figured out, he won't...

...and it will be even more pronounced among pledged delegates

[Kurovski]

33. At this time, Clinton has 1, 099, Obama has 1,039.

They are still counting...

[ProSense]

35. Pledged delegates: Obama 908, Hillary 876 n/t

[Kurovski]

36. It was a CNN "estimate". CNN is still showing Clinton ahead by 61.

at this time.

[anigbrowl]

37. That's only because of superdelegates.

Which is perfectly fair information to include; but the fact is that Obama has won more delegates in state contests now than Hillary has, which has got to be worrying for her.

[eileen_d]

3. kick

:kick:

[knowledgeispwr]

So much for "Obama can only win caucuses"

darn facts! :rofl:

[skooooo]

4. That's quite a record.

I really think he's going to win.

[Debi]

5. But they're not BIG states

:eyes: where Democrats regularly win (and I guess NY/NJ/CA won't vote for the Democratic nominee unless it's Clinton? :crazy:)

[skooooo]

9. you're so right! omg

:rofl:

[Debi]

16. And we don't want to mention that the votes he received in the primaries he won

were greater than the top two republcian's vote totals in many of those states...we might be saying he could..gulp...turn a red state or two BLUE!!! :wow:

[Thrill]

12. So what? McCain isn't going to win Blue states in November

Obama isn't going to be running against Bill AND Hillary Clinton in Novemeber

[Debi]

21. But Obama MAY win some red states in November where there is no guarantee

that Clinton can (looking at his primary vote totals compared to the republican primary vote totals in those states)

[Blue_State_Elitist]

42. There is no guarantee either will win some red states.

[Adelante]

19. One of the most wonderful things about this primary

Is that the WHOLE country is involved. There are many wonderments, but that is surely one.

[Debi]

24. It is AWESOME!

I hope all of us can stay engaged through November. Democratic trunout will be out of this world! :bounce:

[Adelante]

30. Dr. Dean must be wowed by his own self

:D

[Debi]

34. Yep! 50 state strategy is GOOD STRATEGY!

f*&k that 17-state crap of the 2004 campaign!

[jackson_dem]

How does his record in primaries compare to his record in caucuses?

[joshcryer]

11. Just one of his primaries has more votes than all of his caucuses?

:shrug:

[ProSense]

25. Obama has won about as many primaries as Hillary has won states, primary or caucus: 9 or 10 n/t

[joshcryer]

28. Just pointing out the representitive nature of tonights wins.

[book_worm]

26. probably by Wed he will be leading or tied in total primaries won with HRC.

[question everything]

6. What is the percentage of black voters in each of the primary states? (nt)

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

22. 99%, in every single one of them.

Obviously.


:eyes:

[Quixote1818]

39. And Washington is named after Booker T. Washington

Of course a state like that is going to vote for Obama.

[K Gardner]

7. Who is this DUFUSS on MSNBC who is STILL trying to explain away ALL Obama's wins.. even in

the "white" states??!! I'm getting a bit testy.

[Colobo]

8. What's the spin by the Hillary fans?

[LaPera]

13. No fucking spin here's just the facts.....

Both repug Dem picks are far too fucking moderate for my taste! I didn't vote for either on one of them and many progressives feel the same.

Clinton does have many negatives the media has exploited to the max.

But now the republicans smell blood so now Clinton has Rush Limbaugh Coulter, etc. saying she's more right-wing than McCain....some progressive Dems actually believe it. It's obvious who the republicans would rather face, Obama.

Obama is picking up more than eight out of ten African-American voters, many who never voted before.
However, the real picture....

KANSAS; Has 1,561,341 registered voters, Obama won with a total of 27,172 votes hardly the picture what the general election will be like.

NEBRASKA: has 1,232,741 registered voters, Obama received 22,343 total vote, again not a great picture of what the general election will bring.

From the liberal progressive Mark Crispin Miller <[e-mail] >

It's ironic (not to say bizarre) that Barack Obama strikes so many people as
"progressive." First of all, because he's simply not progressive; and, secondly,
because the press has so far treated him much as it treated Ronald Reagan
back in 1980 (and, by and large, forever after): i.e., apolitically, uncritically,
with lots of emphasis on his success as a "communicator" and almost nothing
on his actual positions, or the interests back of him.

If the media knocked off the Reagan treatment of Obama, more of us might
have a clearer sense of where he's really coming from. That he (too) belongs to
Wall Street, and is in the pocket of a nuclear power company called Exelon
(and lies about it), and has named Zbigniew Brzezinski as his top foreign policy
adviser, and stumped for Lieberman, are just a few examples of his true character,
politically speaking. If this sort of thing got proper coverage, we would all be
better off.

It is, of course, a great thing that Obama has inspired so many people to get into
politics. Those people should, however, know exactly who it is they're fighting
for, and what "change" he is likely to create.

MCM

Yes indeed, the media is just sitting and waiting for Obama....Just look at what the same republican media did to John Edwards, (and Dennis Kucinich) only in reverse.

There is no doubt in this very racist country that the republicans would rather face an African American than a woman....Just listen to Limbaugh whom all progressive hate. Look how many Dems didn't vote, all the republicans and many moderates will vote republican instead....I know many democrats and I hear it all the time have deep racism and won't vote for an an African American and if the republicans are successful in labeling the ultra-right McCain a moderate (like they did Bush) then many Dems will vote for McCain as an excuse once the republican media machine goes into action.

The proof just look at every state that either has won, like Kansas - 1,561,341 registered voters Obama won today with a total of 27,172 votes it's the same everywhere in the country and sure to increase.

Obama won Alsaka with a total of 302 votes...302 votes that's ALL the votes that were cast for him and he won, hardly an indicator of what the general election will bring.

This is a very hidden, yet in many way an overtly racist country and racist will come out of the woodwork to vote against an African-American for President....but people are caught up in the Super Bowl Obama or Hillary hype like it's a big game and refuse or can't deal with the reality.

The republicans & their media have your number!

[question everything]

29. The Teflon candidate

People are afraid to say a bad thing about Obama for fear of being called racist.

Imagine the shock once Karl Rove starts his campaign against him. Will DUers be shocked that his middle name will be used? Will they be shocked about brining up his youthful drug use? His schooling at a Muslim school in Indonesia?

[LaPera]

31. No, you underestimate the republicans!

For right now you are correct...but they want Obama to be the nominee, no doubt!

But the republicans will have no fear smearing a black person if Obama is the nominee, they are just hoping...they've done it many times and will certainly do it again with their powerful spin, smear and distortion media machine....little racist stories will pop up out of nowhere...lies will spring up immediately, swift-boating, attacking ones character over & over, and the big one labeling a any dem as a flip-flopper whether it's true or not....You underestimate the greed and sickness of these fascist republicans who desperately need to hold power and they will.....with a lot of help from their voting machines as well.

[never_get_over_it]

38. They won't even need to use the black thing

they're going to use the Muslim thing - because you know smearing a Muslim is almost acceptable - at least it is a KAZILLION times more acceptable than smearing a black

and if Hillary is the nominee they'll use the Clinton hatred AND the sexism - because apparently sexism is so damn ingrained in this society people don't even know it when they see it - even here at progressive DU....

WE'RE SCREWED...in the general no doubt about it - the M$M picked our candidates all along and we fell for it hook line and sinker....

[druidity33]

41. hmmmm

what exactly are you implying here?


"KANSAS; Has 1,561,341 registered voters, Obama won with a total of 27,172 votes hardly the picture what the general election will be like.

NEBRASKA: has 1,232,741 registered voters, Obama received 22,343 total vote, again not a great picture of what the general election will bring."



what kind of #'s were you expecting in a Primary?

what's the largest vote total to a Democrat in Nebraska's Primary history?

:shrug:

[Renew Deal]

18. Her states are bigger than Obamas

:rofl:

[Adelante]

10. Thank you

You saved me the trouble.

[sandnsea]

15. Thank you

Pathetic media.

[Renew Deal]

17. 5 blue states and 3 swing states

...

[tammywammy]

20. Thank you

[VolcanoJen]

27. Elitist Latte Primaries that don't matter, though

Nice post, Pro. ;-)

[ProSense]

40. Make that 9 primaries and 9 caucuses

Louisiana 57%

[rucky]

43. Shouldn't they be called cauci?