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By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyBarack Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States. At 11 p.m. on the dot, as West Coast polls closed, the major news networks called the election for the Democratic senator. Obama won California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, giving him 324 electoral votes to John McCain's 120.12:25 a.m., Obama had 338 electoral votes to McCain's 156. Signing off for the night...America will wake up to a new day...12 midnight: Obama takes the stage in Grant Park, saying for anyone out there who ever doubted change like this could happen in the United States, or ever doubted what someone in ...
Predictions from Mark
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThrow out the polls. All of them. Throw out the ones that show Sen. Barack Obama cruising to a Reaganesque landslide over Sen. John McCain. Throw out the ones that show Sen. McCain making a Trumanesque comeback. Throw out the state polls. Throw out the exit polls, when they are conducted. Throw them all out. The fact is that no pollster truly knows what is going on this election cycle, because this election is unlike any other in the nation's recent history.Never before has there been such a disparity in experience between the two candidates. Sen. John McCain has been in Congress for ...
Predictions from Dave
By Dave - Politics DailyHere goes:The Giuliani/Romney team wins in a tight squeaker to become the next president over Clinton/Richardson.Oh wait, that was the prediction from a year ago. When it made much more sense. Seriously y'all would never have expected all this coming a million years ago?A senator with no experience who's middle name is Hussein? Joe Biden? Sarah who? McCain? If you'd have told me all that a year ago I would have laughed out loud at you and so here we are.So what's going to happen tomorrow night? Possibly what everyone expects, an Obama victory. Or, just like normal for this election year, the ...
Predictions From Brandon
By Brandon Barker - Politics DailyIt's been real and it's been fun, but we're coming to the end of the 2008 LOLection® in a major way. After months of analyzing campaign song selections, viral videos and heartfelt musical tributes, here are my predictions for Tuesday night.6pm: Polls close across the country. The women from 'The View' are quarantined.6:05pm: San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approve 'Proposition R', which renames its sewage treatment plant after George W. Bush. 6:09pm: Greenville, Mississippi overwhelmingly approves its 'Proposition Y', which renames its sewage plant after Mr. Happiness.7pm: For a ...
Hillary Has Obama, Dems in a Vice
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI can't say I'm at all surprised, but it was still a bemusing experience to read Hillary Clinton's speech last night. After losing the Democratic nominating contest in decisive fashion, she had this to say: In the coming days, I'll be consulting with supporters and party leaders to determine how to move forward with the best interests of our party and our country guiding my way. ...Tonight, I am thinking of a woman I met just yesterday in Rapid City, South Dakota. We were outside Talley's Restaurant. There was a crowd there as I was walking into the restaurant. And she was standing right up ...
Big Hillary Speech Tonight
By Dave - Politics DailyHuffington Post: Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to attend her New York speech tomorrow night in an unusual move that is being widely interpreted to mean she plans to suspend her campaign and endorse Barack Obama - if not that night, within a day or two. Obama and Clinton spoke Sunday night and agreed that their staffs should begin negotiations over post-primary activities, according to reliable sources. In addition to seeking Obama's help in raising money to pay off some $20 million-plus in debts, Clinton is known to want Obama to assist black officials who endorsed her ...
'17 Million' - New Clinton Ad
By Greg McNeilly - Politics DailyHillary Clinton's campaign is airing a new :30 second TV ad in South Dakota and Montana, which hold their primaries tomorrow, June 3rd. The spot is titled "17 million." ...
For the Numbers Junkies
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWe're down to the final 3 contests of the Democratic race for the nomination: Puerto Rico (June 1), Montana, and South Dakota (both on June 3). A total of 86 pledged delegates will be decided pending the outcome. Hillary Clinton won Kentucky by 35 percentage points to net a total of 23 delegates. She also won by a total of roughly 150,000 votes.Barack Obama won Oregon by 18 percentage points to net a total of 10 delegates (with 94% of precincts reporting). He won by a total of roughly 102,000 votes.By nearly every count, with last night's additions, Obama has now earned a majority of all ...
The Numbers After Last Night
By David Knowles - Politics DailyGood morning, bean counters! Yesterday, we examined the numbers heading in to last night's primaries. Today, here's where we stand.Barack Obama increased his Pledged Delegate lead by 12, and now has a healthy 166 delegate cushion.Superdelegates remain unchanged for the moment, but look for that number to rise in Obama's favor throughout the coming days.Overall, Obama's edge over Hillary Clinton is roughly 150 delegates. Yesterday that number was 138. There are now just 217 pledged delegates up for grabs for the 6 remaining contests. In fact, for the first time in the race, there are now more ...
Hillary Asserts Popular Vote Lead
By Dave - Politics DailyCounting Michigan and Florida anyway... From the NYT: To help make her case with superdelegates, Mrs. Clinton and some of her prominent supporters are claiming that she has won more of the popular vote in the more than 40 Democratic nominating contests that have been held. She won a net of 200,000 more votes than Mr. Obama in Pennsylvania's primary. "I'm very proud that, as of today, I have received more votes by the people who have voted than anybody else," Mrs. Clinton said on Wednesday in a campaign appearance in Indianapolis. "It's a very close race, but if you count - as I count - the ...
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