Which way, Wyoming? Update: Barack wins
Update: Barack takes Wyo’s 12 delegates. seven delegates; Hill takes 5.
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Shrillary’s already lowered expectations in anticipation of another silver-medal showing in the Wyoming caucuses today. Latest wire dispatches show Obama ahead by a large margin. Turnout’s high. Twelve national delegates are up for grabs:
Barack Obama took the lead over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in early returns Saturday as Democrats crowded caucuses in Wyoming, the latest contest in the candidates’ close, hard-fought race for the party’s presidential nomination.
Obama led Clinton 61 percent to 38 percent with 11 of 23 counties reporting.
Obama generally has outperformed Clinton in caucuses, which reward organization and voter passion more than do primaries. The Illinois senator has won 12 caucuses to Clinton’s three.
But Clinton threw some effort into Wyoming, perhaps hoping for an upset that would yield few delegates but considerable buzz and momentum. The New York senator campaigned Friday in Cheyenne and Casper. Former president Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, also campaigned this week in the sprawling and lightly populated state.
…Clinton, buoyed by big wins in Ohio and Texas last Tuesday, said she faced an uphill fight in Wyoming. Her campaign also holds out little hope for Tuesday’s primary in Mississippi, which has a large black population. Both candidates were looking ahead to the bigger prize—delegate-rich Pennsylvania on April 22.
I was listening to C-SPAN radio while doing Saturday errands this morning. The call-in show was swamped with self-identified Democrats who were venting deep, deep anger at Hillary. They don’t like her negativity. They think she’s sacrificing the party for her own ambitions. And they don’t like her transparently self-aggrandizing pabulum.
Neither does a Nobel Prize-winning Irish politician snorting at her claims of bringing peace to Northern Ireland.
As Ed Morrissey notes, what else is there for her to do?
She’s had an unremarkable Senate career, whose major accomplishment has been to secure almost a half-billion dollars in pork. She has nothing else on which to run except to steal credit for the palatable actions of her husband’s administration.
This is the reason that Barack Obama has enjoyed the success he has until now. He hasn’t been twenty pounds of manure in a ten-pound bag, as the saying goes. He comes across as genuine and believable; Hillary comes across as a BS-er whom no one can trust.
Bill Clinton continues to plug the idea of hitching Hillary’s self-destructing wagon to the Obamamessiah:
At a small town hall meeting in Pass Christian, Miss. this morning, the former president took questions from the crowd, something he hasn’t really done since the days of South Carolina. While a large portion of the questions focused on Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Pass Christian community, one resident asked if Hillary would pick Obama as her Vice President. It is a question that Clinton is very familiar with, having been asked it nearly once a day back in the days of Iowa and New Hampshire. Usually, President Clinton shies away from answering, explaining that his family is VERY superstitious when it comes to politics and they never go thinking they’ve won before they really have.
Today, however, the President seemed especially tickled by the answer, and chose to share with his personal thoughts on picking Obama as a VP.
“She said yesterday and she said the day after her big wins in Texas and Ohio and Rhode Island that she was very open to that and I think she answered explicitly yes yesterday,” Clinton began, referring to Hillary’s own answers on the topic in recent days.
“I know that she has always been open to it, because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he’s brought in and the people in these vast swaths of small town and rural America that she’s carried overwhelmingly, if you had those two things together she thinks it’d be hard to beat. I mean you look at the, you look at the, you look at the map of Texas and the map in Ohio. And the map in Missouri or — well Arkansas’s not a good case because they know her and she won every place there. But you look at most of these places, he would win the urban areas and the upscale voters, and she wins the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president. If you put those two things together, you’d have an almost unstoppable force,” Clinton went on to say.
The Casper Star Tribune is posting running updates on caucus results. Check here.
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What a scarry thought:
Clinton/Obama
or
Obama/Clinton
My teeth are on edge!
Even for political junkies, this is weak beer.
As for Obama, everyone knows he does very well in the caucuses. Everyone also knows nobody cares what Wyoming does or even where it is (somewhere around Montana I think.) Nothing will change, on to the next one.
As for Hillary, you go girl. You remain the Republicans last hope.
That slob would love to be back in the White House, soiling the place up again.
As for the venue, Pass Christian has some serious sail boat racers there! We (FWYC) use to compete with them for the Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup years ago.
Wyoming caucuses mean nothing. Wyoming will be just red in the Fall as it was in 2004 and 2000.
And “beenthere” you should go to Wyoming as it has breathtaking views of country.
I don’t know if The Elite Subculture Code of Conduct exempts this type of plagiarism but if a plebeian is found to have falsified resume credentials, such as job experience, such an applicant is not considered for employment or if so employed they can be fired (and usually are). Given the Morrissey note, should jihillary not resign from the primary and if not why not.
Call me a sick puppy, but I hope the delegate race is so close that John-Boy Edwards and his twenty-odd delegates hold the balance of power.
Hillary is asking that these not be counted and replaced with Florida.
Not that it relates to this posting… but the RNC just called me again asking for money… hahahah I said no mas.
juss sayin.
Wait, this wasn’t South Carolina again, was it?
I suspect the Clintons’ suggestion about a combined ticket is a feeler to see if Sen Obama is willing to consider her as VP. After all, he is leading this thing in delegates and votes.
I am eating this up by the
spoonladle-full!As a Republican I find it both mesmerizing and hilarious that, like lemmings, some Democrats seem bound and determined to willingly allow the Clintons to direct them over the political cliffs – again!
Didn’t these people learn anything about the Clinton family after the 1994 elections?
Isn’t it transparent to any of these Democrats that the Clintons are a self-serving, power hungry couple who (fortunately) were all too glad to throw their own party under the bus, in-order to remain in the White House and position our Hillary for a presidential bid?
But perhaps the real knee-slapper in all this Democrat mayhem is now that the Clintons are arrogantly demanding the support of not only the voters but the super-delegate members of the very party they threw under the bus – they just might get it!
Apparently Democrats can’t get enough of having the Clintons decimate their party on a continual basis.
Hillary-ous!
The arrogance of the Clintons who are behind in delegates to suggest that Barack should be Hillbilly’s VP is beyond galling.
How condescending.
But Hillary is leading among the “Superdelegates”. What could be better than an Obama win in real delegates with Hillary ahead when the Superdelegates are counted?
Learning that Jeff Gillooly has hotel reservations in August for Denver?
Obama coattails? Barack endorsement is putting Bill Foster (D) over the top taking Denny Hassert’s seat, IL-14
It looks like Barack Obama is proving just how significant his coattails will be in the general election. Barack endorsed Bill Foster (D) in the special election for Denny Hassert’s congressional seat in IL-14 and it looks like this once safe Republican district is going to change hands.
Commercial that Foster ran featuring Barack Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnaGlxUUFv4
With 79% of the precincts reporting tonight Foster leads Olberweis (R) 53% to 47%.
Results:
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/index.html
Texas Tiger-it’s been a long time since I heard the name Jeff Gillooly. I also think he changed it to Paul Smith after he flew the jail bird coop.
This is what bothered me about Rush and Laura asking people to cross over and vote for Hillary to keep her in the race. I am afraid that herself and Obama will team up and be the gruesome twosome and I’m afraid that they will win. However, we don’t know how many dims crossed over to vote for McCain. TX & OH are not the only states with open primaries.
However, perhaps we deserve to lose. Bush has been no friend to conservatives in many ways and McCain it a true RINO. I don’t know if our country can stand 4 years of dumb and dumber like it did during the Carter years. We were able to bounce back from that but that was a miserable time in our history-a time where I was glad I was an American, not really proud of it though-maybe big mouth MO is thinking about her teen years during the Carter administration.
Anyway, it’s funny to see old Billy back on the trail again. Wonder what he’ll say tomorrow as he continues to tour the Magnolia state.
Dennis Hastard’s seat, in a Republican district, is being WON as we speak by a DEM. This does not look good, the republicans are not happy and not coming out to vote.
Obama would be in a no win situation as a Clinton running mate no matter who tops the ticket. If it were Clinton/Obama, he would be the most useless man in the world as Billy Jeff would be in effect vice-president. After four years, he would be known as “Barack Who?”. And if it were a Obama/Clinton win, he would not be able to buy life insurance at any price. He would be the only thing in her way to getting what she wants, and bad things happen to people who find themselves in that position.
I still say, if Hillary gets “the House”, she will have to issue all female staff personal TASERs. Billy Jeff on the loose with time on his hands…scary.
johnnycab23513, good illustration. Anyone standing between a Clinton and their target is in grave danger. Like standing between a 12 ga shotgun and it’s target…you’re toast…
I honestly don’t believe a Clint♂n/Oh!b♥m♥ ticket–in either permutation–is viable. Despite what their party hacks say, race and gender are vitally important to the rank and file. The dirty little secret the Democrats hold is that the presence of a black and a woman (both pro-Pali) on the same ticket will lead large components of several constituencies (e.g., union members, the elderly, Jewish voters) to cross over to McCain.
Have heart!
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-Marcus Aurelius
Anecdotally, I’ve spoken with many elderly democrats who are strong in their support of Hillary, but will have a very bad taste if Obama becomes the candidate of their party.
These people are democrats from the FDR era, and would never vote republican…. until now.
There are a lot of people in that demographic, and they do vote! The dems better take notice, or they may shoot themselves in the foot.