McCain Triumphs, Clinton Wins a Tight Race
PJM ROUNDUP: John McCain triumphed on Super Tuesday, crushing Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee and finally calling himself the frontrunner. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton racked up some big wins - but the race with Obama is far from over. Lots at the jump...
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Politico: Big state wins give Hillary an edge
CNN: Mitt vows to fight on
Mark Steyn: There was an explicit anti-Romney vote in the South
Josh Marshall: It’s hard to see how the Democratic fight won’t go all the way to the convention
CNN Political Ticker: Weather forced early poll closures in Arkansas and Tennessee
John Podhoretz: Why They Hate McCain
Politico: Obama delegate guy Jeff Berman says Obama leads in delegates, 606-534
Ross Douthat: Huckabee’s Bright(er) Future
USA Today: Clinton and McCain Win California
Hot Air: “As for Cali, say it with me, my friends. Never. Trust. Zogby.”
John Dickerson: The conservative crack-up is real
TalkLeft: “Obama had his fair shot and he did not deliver today. I do not think he will have another one.”
Captain’s Quarters: “McCain will benefit from Huckabee’s success, but he hasn’t closed out Romney altogether.”
Kesher Talk: Voting Republican in Liberal Manhattan
Victor Davis Hanson: The Die Has Been Cast.
Associated Press: Clinton wins American Samoa caucus
New York Times: All eyes on California
CNN: The results by states so far
Yahoo Finance: What the candidates want with your wallet
CNN: Obama wins Minnesota
CNN: Obama wins Colorado
CNN: McCain wins Arizona
CNN: Huckabee wins Georgia
Tom Bevan: “Will Mitt Romney be able to salvage an otherwise bad night by winning California? It seems unlikely, given the winner take all by CD allocation of delegates.”
CNN: Obama takes Kansas and Connecticut
Confederate Yankee: “A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain”
Yahoo: Tornadoes kill 3 in the South
New York Times: Photos from Tri-State Area
CNN: Obama wins North Dakota
ABC News: McCain takes Oklahoma
CNN: Romney takes Utah
Associated Press: Clinton, Obama start anew
ABC News: Clinton wins New Jersey
ABC News: Hillary Clinton takes Massachusetts
New York Times: After tonight, a primary respite for all
Washington Post: Live coverage of candidates’s speeches
Josh Marshall: Chris Matthews right — McCain winning states Republicans rarely win in general elections
John Podhoretz: Hillary wins New York Jewish vote overwhelmingly
Michael Crowley: Clinton’s Massachusetts win the “Upset of the Night”
ABC News: Obama wins Alabama
CNN: Voters turn out in droves
San Francisco Chronicle: Voting advocates allege problems at Los Angeles polls
Campaign Spot: Exit polls: Arizona: McCain 36 percent, Romney 36 percent, Huckabee 7 percent.
Captain’s Quarters: A brokered Democratic convention?
Intrade: Prices McCain at 88.3, Clinton at 58.0
ABC News: Clinton takes New York
ABC News: McCain wins New York
McCain takes Delaware
Clinton carries Tennessee
Clinton, Huckabee take Arkansas
Obama projected winner in Illinois; Hillary gets Oklahoma. McCain projected winner in Connecticut, New Jersey and Illinois; Romney gets Mass.
ABC: “Change” beats “Experience” 2 to 1
Real Clear Politics Results Chart
NRO Campaign Spot: “I am told to expect an extremely late night in California. With the absentees included, and an additional wave of data from the field, McCain is up over Romney 40 percent to 38 percent…”
CNN: Barack Obama wins Georgia. No winner projected among Republicans
NRO: Exit polls: “Total landslide for Obama in most of the southern states”
Swampland: Obama thinks Hillary still the favorite
Campaign Spot: Early exit polls out, Romney poised to take Massachusetts
Intrade: Prediction markets show Clinton-Obama tossup
ABC: Oprah to the rescue during Chicago voting glitch
Daniel Drezner: “McCain has certainly been tested, and he deserves some credit for sticking to his positions even when they cost him the frontrunner status.”
Firedoglake: Clinton agrees to Fox debate
The Hill: Romney sees McCain-Huckabee backroom deal to divert votes
Shakespeare’s Sister: Last-minute tips for Hillary on her big day
Hot Air: Rush Limbaugh endorses Mitt Romney
KSAT: No Super Tuesday voting in Texas, though some people think there is
Protein Wisdom: A television viewer’s guide to Super Tuesday
The Corner: Huckabee wins West Virginia
LGF: “I tossed and turned all night, haunted by the ghosts of Rudy and Duncan. And when I awoke, it was all not a dream – we really do have to choose between McCain and Romney.”
TPM: Guaranteed: either Zogby or SurveyUSA will eat crow tonight
Pollster.com: Get ready for exit poll leaks at 5:00 p.m., plus tips for interpreting them
CNN: A super state-by-state guide to Super Tuesday
NY Post: Huge turnout in Manhattan — for New York Giants parade
Slate: Super Tuesday’s pivotal storylines-to-be
Drudge Report: Hillary stung by Super Tuesday coughing fits
CNN: Clinton advisor Terry McAuliffe says Obama would make good running-mate
Marc Ambinder: Bill Clinton’s Super Tuesday predictions
New York Times: Voices from the polls
Washington Post: Eight questions Super Tuesday could answer
AFP: Obama winning early votes abroad
Associated Press: N.J. governor can’t vote because of poll problems
Reuters: Obama, Romney lead in California
Rolling Stone: Mellencamp asks McCain to stop using his tunes
City Journal: Bizarre Bedfellows for Barack
CNN: Paper ballots could delay California results
Slate: Trying to glean some knowledge from the glut of Feb. 5 polls.
McClatchy: Clinton, McCain lead in bellwether Super Tuesday states
Commentary: Obama: The New Princess Diana?
NY Times: A guide of things to look for on Super Tuesday.
Politico: Bob Dole scolds Rush Limbaugh for bashing McCain
Irish Trojan in Tenn: Three reasons to vote for Obama
Reuters: McCain and Romney battling over who is real conservative.
LA Times: The Return of the Youth Vote
OpenLeft: “It can no longer be avoided: super delegates will determine the Democratic Presidential nominee this year.”
Dueling actors: Robert De Niro backs Obama, Jack Nicholson endorses Hillary.
Kirsten Powers: Why is Hillary losing women? “One irony of this race is that the male candidate has co-opted, and embodies, the lexicon of the feminist movement: change, hope, optimism.”
Race 4 2008: Tennessee Conservative Union Endorses John McCain
Southern Political Report: Romney surges against McCain in Georgia; Obama gains on Hillary in Alabama
IHT: Clinton and Obama remain in tough fight as McCain coasts
Politico: Media spars with Obama, other candidates over off/on the record statements.
Dick Morris: “Of the 10 states with reliable and recent poll data, Hillary leads in eight, although by razor-thin margins in California, Alabama, Missouri, Connecticut and New Jersey. Only in New York, Massachusetts and Tennessee does her lead seem secure. How did the Clinton machine falter so badly? And will the trend for Obama continue?”
Fred Siegel: “On the eve of Super Tuesday, the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama race resembles the closing minutes of a football game: Team Clinton has a small lead, but Team Obama has the ball-and the momentum. Some of that momentum derives from an extraordinary, if unspoken, m√©salliance that has emerged in recent months between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. Their hostility to the Clintons brings them together.”
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1. Edmund Jenks (MAXINE):Mitt Romney Surge Seen In California
Conservative Republican’s may finally be able to send Arnold Schwarzenegger a message on how they feel about his liberal betrayal of the people who swept him into office.
Arnold endorses a man cut from the same cloth in Senator John McCain for President … California Republicans can bring the party back to its conservative principles and tell Arnie what they think about HIS policies with a confident vote cast for Mitt Romney as the Republican choice to lead the free world.
Feb 5, 2008 - 7:02 am 2. dougf:“California Republicans can bring the party back to its conservative principles and tell Arnie what they think about HIS policies”
Well not to defend Arnold who I think has allowed California to continue to spend itself into a really fine mess, but California Republicans make me LOL. They are presiding over a catastrophe calling itself a Party and they somehow think that is a ‘good thing’. More entertainingly they and their allies in the cheap-seats media, seem to think that their’s is a model the National Party should copy.
The Republican Party in California is totally moribund and slowly dying from complete irrelevancy. It now more resembles a cult, than a viable political agent and evidently it’s inmates prefer it that way. Each to his/her own I guess but I just don’t get it.
What’s that you say ? Parties are supposed to actually be able to accomplish something. They must in a democratic society try to remember that politics is the art of the possible. Compromise is not a bug; it’s a feature.
Heresy I say. Heresy. You are cast out!! Never darken my doorstep again.
Being right as the most believing of the believers define it, is the only path to salvation.
Gimme an amen.
And — lots and lots of electoral defeats. Lots, and lots, and lots, of defeats. A numbingly predictable, energy sapping, endless series of defeats.
But eash to his/her own as I said. Whatever floats your boats.
Even sinking boats.
Feb 5, 2008 - 8:32 am 3. Edmund Jenks (MAXINE):“They are presiding over a catastrophe calling itself a Party and they somehow think that is a ‘good thing’.”
Ok … Ok! This may only be one vote cast by a broken party here in California (yes, I agree), but it is a vote that will allow some to stand up and be counted (even though it feels a little like the mouse with one finger raised high in the face of an incomming, swooping Eagle).
Feb 5, 2008 - 9:12 am 4. dougf:“but it is a vote that will allow some to stand up and be counted (even though it feels a little like the mouse with one finger raised high in the face of an incomming, swooping Eagle).”
LOL.
Wishing you the best anyway. Happy voting. Courage in the face of known adversity is laudible in and of itself. As is self-awareness.
Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutamus.
Feb 5, 2008 - 9:37 am 5. Old Glory Radio:I just put up my audio editorial on the Fix Being In on the democratic side.
http://oldgloryradio.podbean.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-democrat-primary-the-fix-is-in/
The real showdown is on the Rep side and if they will wake up the socialist McCain.
Feb 5, 2008 - 11:39 am 6. chiefpayne:The simple fact is, McCain will be the Republican nominee…and Huckabee is counting on his being setup as the VP.
Of course since there are those who could not or would not compromise and go with either Thompson or Rudy…and do NOT like Romney, there is no one for conservatives to vote for in November.
Thus while McCain will most likely be the Republican nominee and Huckabee his VP, they will NOT win the White House and will in fact be humiliated by a lack of votes. This will be because the conservative part of the GOP will not vote in November and will leave McCain to hang out to dry…and we will have Hillary or Obama in the White House.
For if the race is between McCain or Hillary or McCain and Obama, what is the difference really? After all, no matter WHO wins in that scenario, a LIBERAL will be in the White House. And if that is to be the results, the conservatives will just choose not to vote. For conservatives will NEVER vote for a liberal, no matter what.
Feb 6, 2008 - 8:01 am 7. jeff meyer:Why do news accounts claim Hillary is the winner when Obama has more delegates? Wishful thinking?
Feb 6, 2008 - 8:20 am