2008 Presidential Race

[chromodynamics]

On the Democratic side:
Obama won both contests yesterday, winning in Wisconsin (58-41) and Hawaii (76-24).

Obama continued to cut into Hillary’s base, while Hillary’s recent negative attacks (like the whole plagiarism debate) did not blunt Obama’s momentum.

Both:
This article thrills me to no end. It is a comparison of [Obama vs. Hillary] vs. McCain to [Santos vs. Russell] vs. Vinick, the contest in the final two years of the series The West Wing.

On the Republican side:
McCain won both contests, winning in Wisconsin (55-37) and Washington (49-22).

McCain is only about 200 delegates away from clinching the nomination, so it is likely that the Republican contest will end on March 4th. However, his win in Wisconsin continued to be because of a strong showing among moderates and those who are “somewhat conservative”, not an increase in his showing among the “very conservative.”

Comments

[misscake]

I'm starting to get a little nervous about how contentious the convention is going to be. The last thing I want to see is a cannibalistic party at war with itself going into one of the most important elections ever.

I don't know if you get henryjenkins' feed or read his blog, but he made a very interesting post about Obama a couple of days ago.

[chromodynamics.livejournal.com]

I'm not too nervous, because I think that Obama will more than likely win either Texas or Ohio, and quite likely both. I think if he does get both, the Clinton campaign will have to face the writing on the wall. I just hope they don't decide to go nuclear and tear down Obama before the general contest.

That was an interesting article, thanks for the link!