Wednesday, February 6, 2008

A super day for McCain; good for Dems, too

It appears that John McCain is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. Mike Huckabee, though he won some states tonight, cannot win nationally, and Mitt Romney needed California tonight or some other combination that gives him viability, and that just didn't happen.

Things are a lot closer for the Democrats. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split the 20-odd states, with the former first lady taking the biggest prizes of California and New York. The Dems, however, use a proportional format to distribute delegates, so both candidates will gain a chunk tonight and move on. The primary line-up looks good for Obama for the next couple of weeks, with March 4 -- the day of the Texas and Ohio contests -- possibly being the decisive day.

Clinton and Romney had solid wins here in Massachusetts.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I am disappointed in the Patrick, Kennedy, Kerry machine. I thought they would be able to do a better job at mobilizing the people of MA in favor of Obama.

N.starluna said...

I'm wondering if the Republicans will choose Huckabee for the VP. McCain is detested by "conservatives" and Huckabee would balance their ticket out on that measure.

Anonymous said...

I'm disappointed that MA continues to support left wing zealots.

Jim said...

Who is a left-wing zealot? To my eye, Hillary Clinton is moderate-to-moderately liberal. The real zealots -- those on the right -- have been running the country for seven years and look at where that has led us.