First the Repuglicans. It seems that front runner McCain and the Huckster were drinking from the same Romney hater-aid mug. Huckabee won West Virginia last night because the McCain campaign told his delegates to throw their support to Huckabee to keep Romney from winning. Recall that the Republican primaries are winner take all. McCain would rather have them go to Huckabee than Romney. Can you say McCain-Huckabee in ‘08? It makes since, don’t it? The wacky conservative evangelicals don’t favor McCain all that much so why not pair with a southern minister?
Now the Dems. It seems like this thing will never end. Obama and Hillary split the states but Hillary picked up more delegates because you guys in California couldn’t get your act together, I mean because of relentless Clinton campaigning. When you look at the map, Hillary won the coasts with Obama winning the large swath of middle America and the South (and no, Florida is not the South). As of now, Clinton has 758 delegates and Obama has 679. They need 2,025 to win the nomination.
The State Of . . . Election ‘08. Next up is February 9th with 5 states holding primaries: KS (R only), LA (R & D), NE (D only), VI (D only), and WA (R and D). That’s 204 total Democratic delegates and 126 total Republican delegates at stake.
TSO had some representatives at the Hyatt Regency here in Chicago to check out Michelle Obama. We hope to hear from them later today on how the scene was last night.
UPDATE: According to Politico, Obama’s camp is claiming more delegates than Clinton. It should be noted that even the delegate counts given above are according to estimates by the news agencies that report them. Official delegate counting is ongoing.
NBC News, which is projecting delegates based on the Democratic Party’s complex formula, figures Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton.
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