Obama wins South Carolina

[SoMissTV]

The AP is reporting that Obama has won in South Carolina. They've made this declaration with 0% of precincts reporting. (http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/01/in-sc-the-hour.html)

:shrug::shrug:

[Hawkeye]

The AP is reporting that Obama has won in South Carolina. They've made this declaration with 0% of precincts reporting. (http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/01/in-sc-the-hour.html)

:shrug::shrug:

LOL, I don't know why we need the expense of presidential elections when we could just have the press predict us one. :shrug:

[IGID]

I thought they learned their lesson after the Florida fiasco and exit polls.

[Hawkeye]

They never learn. They blew it again in New Hampshire, recently.

[Queen Mother]

If I'm reading this correctly, this is very big for Obama. He won every age group and every specific demographic group today.

[Hawkeye]

The Hillary is blowing it lately and Bill is doing more harm than good.

[Queen Mother]

Caroline Kennedy has announced that she will be endorsing Obama.

[Queen Mother]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27kennedy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Caroline Kennedy's Op Ed in the New York Times - "A President Like My Father"

[Guru]

CNN had a very telling poll dissection going on yesterday afternoon late that I caught.
They started from A and literally went to Z.
One of the telling parts is that the percentage breakdown of who voted for who dispelled the theory that women of whatever color would vote for a woman and that men of whatever color could or would split their votes depending on their political views.

I'm only going to mention the top three in this election.

This also had a very telling conclusion of the number of people that go to the polls.

The end result was that white women were split upon their votes for Hillary, Obama and Edwards.
And only a small percentage even voted.
The remainder of their votes were split or scattered among the other candidates.

81% of black women voted for the black candidate Obama.
(Kinda following Oprah.)

34% of white men voted for Edwards.
The percentage of white male voters was a small total of all those registered.
The remainder of this groups voters was split or scattered among the other candidates.

81% of black males voted for Obama.
Apparently following the same lines as the black female votes.

According to the voting house folks I know only about 33-34% of the population even votes on any given election. They give them some kind of overview schooling before they go to do their voting house worker duties and tell me that this about the same all around the nation.

It's kind of sad that more people don't exercise their basic right as Americans to vote. A lot of good folks have died hoping that they suited up every day to make sure Americans could vote.

It's also sad that this election could be decided based on voter concentration of one demographic group to one candidate and allowed because another demographic group sat at home in apathy and didn't exercise their constitutional right.
It almost makes it appear if I had painted my face black, got on a podium and picked a few cliches to blah-blah-blah about that I could have actually gotten elected president.

Oh yeah, and Ron Paul doesn't appear to have a chance of a snowball on a July day. Might be a good candidate but he gets no air time at all. General consensus is that the Republicans don't stand a chance in Hell of getting a candidate in office in 2008.
Of course that is yet to be seen.

[dreamhippy]

If Obama gets in, I hope he leads better than Nagin did in New Orleans. He probably will do better than that, because just about anyone could.

[dreamhippy]

Oh yeah, and Ron Paul doesn't appear to have a chance of a snowball on a July day. Might be a good candidate but he gets no air time at all. General consensus is that the Republicans don't stand a chance in Hell of getting a candidate in office in 2008.
Of course that is yet to be seen.



Actually I just read an interesting article on this subject. If you look at the turnout numbers for the Dem primaries Vs. Republicans, you'll find much higher numbers for the Dems. The author theorizes that this is due to the overwhelming disapproval of the war in Iraq. Think 2006 elections. He goes on to state that a pro-war Republican candidate has no chance in the general election. If you're a conservative, that leaves only one choice, Ron Paul. We should give this some thought. I think the fascists in charge of the Republican party will never let him get the nomination, but he's the only one that can beat Hillary. He`s the ONLY one I will vote for. He also just recently was endorsed by former New Mexico Governor, Gary Johnson. :)

[Guru]

Maybe if we get Oprah to endorse him ...

[countrygirl]

Both Obama and Hillary scare me....

[CircusRide]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27kennedy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Caroline Kennedy's Op Ed in the New York Times - "A President Like My Father"

Yeah, that's just what we need, another JFK......:banghead: