Obama’s squeaker in Guam
I know you’ve all been on pins and needles all weekend waiting for the results to come in. Here they are:
Barack Obama has won the Guam Democratic caucuses by a margin of 7 votes.
With all of Guam’s precincts reporting, Obama won 2,264 votes (50.1 percent) to 2,257 votes (49.9 percent) for Hillary Clinton, his sole remaining rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Obama led the vote count throughout the day and had a 52.7 percent to 47.3 percent advantage over Clinton by late afternoon. Clinton then won the sole remaining precinct — Guam’s largest village of Dededo — by a 61.9 percent to 38.1 percent margin, which brought her to within 7 votes of Obama in the overall tally.
Polls closed at 6 a.m. eastern time Saturday, but vote counting on the U.S. territory took over 13 hours to finalize.
Obama and Clinton will split the U.S. territory’s four pledged delegate votes evenly, with two apiece.
The win gives Obama his 31st victory of the campaign, including his win in the Texas caucuses in March. Clinton has won 16 contests, including the Texas primary.
Here’s the Guam for Obama page celebrating.
Next stops: Indiana and North Carolina on Tuesday.
It’s been a doozy, hasn’t it?
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Well, if you add a few zeros (no pun intended) it seems like another island paradise, Manhattan.
I’m sure this win will inspire the entire country with overwhelming confidence in Obama’s abilities.
/sarc off
I’m not usually a Colbert watcher as he annoys the tar out of me but I did see a clip where he interviewed someone from Guam and when they said they were from the United States he held up a map of the Continental US w/Hawaii and Alaska and asked her where in the US she was from. heh.
Does this win “help the kids”, Mrs. Obama, cause I sure hope so!!!
If Barack Hussein “grew up” in Hawaii and can only win Guam by 7 votes, I would say his campaign is really slowing down.
I’ll bet now that Hillary ends up with the nomination. Hussein Obama is finished. If he gets the nomination, it will be a landslide for McCain, and Democrats are starting to realize that.
WOOOO, man what a nail biter!……….pahleeze…….
A bit of campaign foreshadowing in Kentucky? Eight Belles, the horse Hillary picked to win the Derby, finished a close second, collapsed and was killed on the spot.
Mookie, I thought the exact same thing. Not only did her pick lose, but the horse’s weakness caused her to lose, and be put down.
I wonder if the dems will figuratively put Hillary down when she loses. They seem to do that with other dems that lose the big one.
#7 and 8
grrrrrrrrrrr. that was a heartbreaking accident.
GUAM IS GOOD
BILLY, STOP YELLING, MY EARS ARE BLEEDING!/sarc on
Ah, so it does “take a village” afterall!
MANY YEARS AGO THE AIR FORCE STENCILED GUAM IS GOOD ON EVERY SINGLE THING ON ANDERSON AFB.
feebibabe, I didn’t mean to belittle the nature of the accident today at the Derby. I was saddened by that, being from Ocala, FL where many race horses are bred and sold. (Alot of other horses are there, too.)
I did, however, intend to draw an analogy thusly: Clinton may not only lose the race, but if she does she may be eliminated from future races, if the democrats follow suit like they have with other candidates in the past. In the dem party, if you lose the big one, you ain’t gonna get a second chance.
Back to the horse, I was in dis-belief they put her down right there on the track, too. Hopefully someday vets will come up with an emergency prosthesis(spelling?) for horses so something like this won’t mean the end of the animal’s life.
So does this mean the automatic recount rules are in order?
Where are Hillary’s Laywers?
BILLY MAYS, YOU’RE ANNOYING AS HELL ON TV, AND YOU’RE JUST AS ANNOYING HERE!
Chill out with the caps pls.
Not quite SHoward…the Dems foolishly thought that if they could send a re-treaded Carter Administration VP guy by the name of Walter Mondale, that they could defeat Ronald Reagan…When I saw that they were going for Mondale instead of Gary “Monkey Business” Hart, I knew that Reagan had just won re-election in 1984.
The Dems have an impractical fascination with personality over results..hence their swooning over Obama…with Martin Luther King Jr. their equivalent of Jesus himself.
I’m a Chamoru. What’s embarrassing is reading the PDN (local paper) and seeing them gush for Obama. My island is inflicted with entitlement disease and Obama provided another petri dish for the infection to flourish.
As to the assertion that Obama relates to us because he was raised on Hawaii, Hawaiians and Guamanians have little in common in terms of political power and status.
Gecko, my wife is a filipina, born in Manila and raised on Guam and she will agree with you. She brought up the “entitlement” disease before I read your comments to her.
7 votes, huh? sooo, that means he gets like 4 delgates and she gets 3?
/whatevs., here’s hoping both IN and NC both go the same way tues. [and if i have to choose i want them to go b.o.'s way] so that we can end this thing; yes i like op. chaos as much as the next guy but i think we’ve pretty much played out the string by now …
Not a prawb. …I have not bet on horseraces for years…and got a bug in me today…now…me feels bad
Last time I bet on a horse, Mr. Brooks broke a leg.
Hillary is an arse, Obama is an Arse, Eight Belles RIP.
Take care.
Obama figured to win Guam by a wide margin. The results show he is in trouble. If he’s upset in NC it is over for him.
Their claim to fame used to be “Guam where America’s day begins.” Beautiful little island with some really nice beaches when I first visited in 1979. It rains everyday between 1500 – 1600 hrs (3:00 pm – 4:00 pm for civilians) as the military stationed there used to call the daily rain “Guaming.” Except for the occasional typhoon it was a real tropical paradise. It appears the Obamination’s star is finally descending.
That phrase is not a “claim to fame,” rather fact per International Dateline. The irony is that national news and tv schedule is a day, sometimes a week, behind in broadcasting!
What should be a part of the discussion is that Guam’s majority practiced religion is Catholicism. Votes for Obama or Clinton should have reflected this population if the non-negotiable issues were seriously taken into consideration.
They are saying this morning that there maybe a recount due to some votes being lost and other various problems…. hmmm wonder if Howard Dean had something to do with this..
I heard that there were approx. 500 ballots that couldn’t be read/interpreted.
Is this gonna be another Florida where people don’t know how to indicate on a ballot who their choice is?
Good grief folks, this ain’t rocket science.
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RUSH IS CLAIMING THAT OPERATION CHAOS IS WHAT MADE THE ELECTION SO CLOSE AND THAT WITHOUT IT OBAMA WOULD HAVE RUN AWAY WITH IT.
Only prob, Rush is no longer broadcast on any Guam radio stations. I have to stream it online at around 2 in the morning. There may be some islanders who mill around like zombies, but I doubt it’s due to doses of late-night radio talk-show goodness.