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February 2008 ArchivesWith two big prizes up for grabs Tuesday, it was anyone's bet as to where the major presidential candidates would be on primary election night. 1:43pm Beaumont 12:30pm Beaumont 7:00 University of Texas at Austin- 6:50pm University of Texas Austin 2:27pm UT Austin 1:30 UT Austin 8:30 University of Texas, Austin 9:10 Inside Toyota Center- 7:20 Inside Toyota Center 6:21 Inside Toyota Center 5:21 Toyota Center 4:54 inside Toyota Center 2:45pm at the Toyota Center I thought I'd have some friends over to play a new drinking game called "the change drinking game" where we would all do a shot every time one of these crooks used the word "change" but I quickly realized we would all either be in the hospital with alcohol poisoning or elected to the Senate from the state of Massachusetts. (also we didn't have enough life jackets for the girls) This election is not about allowing someone to keep their job it's really about us the citizens of this country and what kind of future do we want. Do we want to live in freedom or do we want a big government nanny to tell us where to live, what opinions we can have and express and who we want to associate with. Right now when it comes to two of the three leading candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain freedom comes in a distant third to their big government agendas. McCain has a chip on his shoulder and Hillary is a pathological liar who still believes in the failed theories of Karl Marx. Depending on whom you watched for your Super Tuesday updates, chances are good you can be a bit confused by the delegate count. I will be starting a new show at a new radio station and tonight the powers that be wanted to have a big pow wow. Well it looks like John McCain (Skeletor) is cruising to victory as the Republican candidate for 2008. This reminds me of the Bob Dole "let the old war horse run" Republican payback of 1996
We've had a handful of e-mails asking where our guest blogger Chris Baker has been. It's clear neither Obama nor Clinton will have wrapped up the nomination tonight. In truth, nobody really expected either one would -- they both have too much support and too much money and the Democrats' proportional assignment of delegates means neither one can land a knockout blow tonight. So, what's left? Well, there's the Beltway Primary next week (Maryland, Virginia, D.C.). But that should be pretty split, too. So that leaves ONLY Texas and Ohio as having any significant number of delegates still at state (until Pennsylvania in mid-April). You can bet you'll see hundreds of ground troops (paid staffer... So, if you are active in party politics, do results from tonight mean that Texas will be a player in the national scene in selecting the nominees for president? I disagree with the tiele "Huckabee Wins West Virginia." Sure, he got the delegates, but the real winner there was McCain. By joining forecs with the Huckabee folks, McCain was able to deprive Romney of those delegates. Remember, Romney was in the lead after round 1 of the voting at that convention. So McCain kept Romney from getting those delegates by giving them to Huckabee, where they can't do McCain any real harm. Huckabee didn't win -- McCain did, but keeping those delegates from Romney, the candidate who really had the most votes in the state (at least among all three Republican candidates). Gerry Bir... It's still early, but I don't see any surprises yet. Obama's win in Georgia was more decisive than expected but that only confirms that we're going to have a real, live contested Democratic presidential primary in Texas on March 4. An important historical observation: anybody who is less than 78 years old has never had the chance before this year to vote in a presidentail election that didn't have an incumbent president or vice president on the ballot seeking the presidency (last time was 1952 -- Eisenhower versus Stevenson). That's really quite significant. Ordinarily elections are about the inhabitants of... Gerry makes a fair point: In West Virginia: Of 27 pledged delegates, 18 are allocated Feb. 5 and 9 are allocated on May 13. Winner-take-all for 18 at-large delegates on Feb. 5 caucuses, open only to Republicans. The 9 remaining district delegates allocated on a winner-take-all basis by district at May 13 primary, which is open to registered Republicans and independents. ...I don't believe it is accurate to say that "all" of the Republican primaries are "winner take all." Several (like New York and West Virginia) are, but others (most notably, California) are not -- they are awarded by whomever wins a congressional district, not winner take all for the state. Massachussets is another state where Republican delegates are awarded proportionately, not "winner take all." Now, on the Democratic side, all contests are proportional and none are "winner take all." And don't forget the so-called "super delegates." They could be decisive -- especially in the Democratic contest.<... For those keeping track of tonight's results, we have posted a Super Tuesday Delegate Tracker on the homepage of KHOU.com. Thought to be somewhat an afterthought on this Super Tuesday, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee won the West Virginia GOP convention. |
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