Wisconsin 96% reporting:
Obama 58%
Clinton 41%
Sen. Obama won males 3-2 and split women evenly, winning both over and under $50K/yr families. Blacks less than 10% of pop., but delivered 4/1. Young voters and Independents strongly for the candidate from neighboring Illinois.
McCain, also claiming victory on the GOP side over hapless Huckabee, takes a swipe at Obama, claiming the “experience” mantle and repeating also Hillary’s charge of lack of substance and accomplishment.
Hillary again doesn’t mention her loss or congratulate Obama; she unveils new advert, “Night Shift”, and goes back to the theme of too many pretty words and not enough “hard work”, and claims to be the better commander in chief as a result of her travels and experiences. She starts using a telepromter (Obama does).
Obama wows crowd of 20,000 in Houston, saying there are many good ideas in America, but that Washington, D.C., is where those ideas go to die.
Hillary’s polling lead in Ohio and Texas are now much smaller with the Lone Star State nearly a draw after being ahead as much as 20% both states. Her campaign at least says it’s a little confused and disgruntled with the delegate system in Texas, having just found out what you guys read about several days ago here on this blog. Maybe they read it here first. It COULD happen.
No word from Hawaii on results at this writing, except that turnout is double of the last two election cycles. Obama went to school and lived there and his half sister campaigned as a surrogate while Chelsea got the plum assignment from her mother’s campaign. I’d rather be there than the below zero temps in Green Bay (Big Island was 80 as voting closed with some showers).
Word is floating out there that Hillary will call it quits after March 4 without a clear victory but there’s countervailing rumors that she’ll go “scorched earth.” Ya’ll know I think it’ll go to at least Pennsylvania and no longer than North Carolina, but what the hell, my guess is as good as just about anybody’s but Bill at this point. He certainly seems the better candidate in the sense that I think he’s run a better campaign, leaving aside any points you may wish to award for public speaking for him as well as policy for her. I just mean the ad buys, the time allocation, the fund raising the precinct organizing are all amazing and well coordinated. It’s a sure sign of a winning campaign. Losing campaigns are in disarray because they’ve become reactive (and they are often reactive because they are losing. It is NOT a tautology! Shut up. No one knows what that word means anyway.).
Went to a real good AA meeting tonight to get away from the laptop when there weren’t any results yet anyway and before that, while the polls were still open, fixed myself pork chops, red potatoes and whole green beans boiled with onion and bacon grease. Slopped up that juice with the buttered whole wheat bread slice just like the southern fried boy I am. My cholesterol is through the roof but it was good, if plain, fare.
I want to be in Tucson. I want to take my daughter crayons and feel her forehead and fetch her water. I wouldn’t know if money makes you happy but I can darn sure tell you from experience that a lack of money can be a wretched inconvenience.
David Letterman takes note that Fidel resigned in Cuba today and that he was expected to turn over power to his younger brother, Raul, or maybe his idiot son, Fidel W. Castro.
love you guys. say “hey” to your mom an’ ‘em. drive careful now.
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