Well, everyone, it’s Tuesday - and that means…primaries. (Sigh. How many more states are there?) Here’s the relevant info thus far: Sen. Clinton is projected to win Kentucky, with 63% of the vote in, and will be giving her victory speech momentarily. The polls in Oregon do not close until 11 PM Eastern time.
That’s it!
Since I think we can all agree that very little new info will come about tonight, more than likely, so I’ll just update when anything major goes down. Feel free to chat amongst yourselves in the comments!
9:30 PM: With 97% of the precincts reporting in Kentucky, Sen. Clinton’s lead is 2 to 1 over Sen. Obama. Approximately half of the KY voters questioned in the exit poll said that Edward’s endorsement influenced their decision. Obama will be speaking in about an hour and a half. And KO has some rather sad looking pizza on a paper plate. Poor guy.
11:00 PM: With 0% of the precincts reporting, NBC is projecting that Obama is the winner in Oregon. Obama spoke live from Iowa, telling his Iowan supporters that he has “returned to Iowa” with a majority of pledged delegates. Since Oregon and Kentucky have almost the same number of delegates, it looks like tonight was…well, let’s just say that no one will really gain or lose their lead/trailing in delegates, yes? However, tonight will put Obama “within arm’s length” of having enough delegates to secure the nomination, according to Tim Russert.
That’s all from me tonight. Next week, join me for more primaries!
Well, I certainly wish that I had seen Rachel on the Today show this am with Geraldine Ferraro.
Based on the comments it sounded fascinating, and there was this stunned moment when Keith at least, and possibly Chris, realized that there are aspects to being a human being that they had never fathomed, being men and all.
Thank you, Arrow. How in the world did you manage to keep paying attention to most of that, let alone keep your sense of humor?
While I assume that your question was rhetorical, there are three more primaries - two states and a territory. Puerto Rico is on Sunday, June 1st, and then Montana and South Dakota are both on Tuesday the 3rd of June.
Two more weeks, count them, TWO. I am not expecting primary withdrawal symptoms afterwards, political junkie though I may be.
After that I am dreaming of NOTHING until the Conventions, but I suspect that with all the speculation about possible Veep candidates for both parties, plus Super Duper Delegates, who may have already become an anachronism before they even get a chance to be Super, this dog and pony, er, donkey and elephant show will go on and on and on.
I think that I need to turn in my fan girl secret decoder ring as I had so much trouble paying attention tonight and even fell deeply asleep for a while, admittedly while Clinton was giving her victory speech, but I realized several hours in that I had failed to notice what TIE Keith was wearing. (I would be hanging my head in embarrassment, only I gave up embarrassment for Lent one year, and it felt so freeing, I never took it back.)
As for the general puzzlement among the on screen gang as to why Hillary can ring up such a big win when she no longer has a logical chance at the nomination and isn’t that bad for Obama: Guys, her followers don’t know that. They do not follow the math and pundits, and for a few weeks she has been running an ad about not believing the pundits, featuring Tim Russert and the dynamic duo of Keith and Chris.
To be really accurate, she should be showing Chuck Todd, but casual news followers would not know who he is.
She is truly trying to create her own reality.
At least during Dan’s After Hours segment he finally got into one of my big concerns, that she is duping low income older women into donating to a campaign that has no logical, viable chance.
Now, if only someone would get on the bandwagon about how much of the Clinton campaign is a Mitt Romney look-alike of self financing.
Were the Clintons not multi millionaires, her run would have ended many months ago and I would not have forgotten about the Stanley Cup.
By rafismom on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:23 am | Permalink
I’m meh about primary coverage. I squeed a bit when I saw Keith (wearing a green tie) while working out at the Y. Otherwise, there’s too much filler on primary nights. Just give me Keith for that precious hour and I’m a happy camper.
It was a great excuse to watch Kids in the Hall’s “Brain Candy”! Oh, so stupid!
By Hermione on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:49 am | Permalink
Hernione, Keith wears a green tie at when he works out at your Y?
By redtoots on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:32 am | Permalink
Redtoots, yes he does!
Crap. Poor grammar. I apologize. *head bonk*
By Hermione on Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:09 am | Permalink