I noticed Hillary won the Catholic vote by a 3-1 margin.  Whatever happened to those pictures of JFK...

Wow..Hillary had a double digit lead in Independents

I would like an obama or edwards supporter to tell me these numbers don't matter.

everyone follows polls every day.  this is a poll that can't be attacked because of methodology.

The clintons have taken the obama camp's race card and trumped it so far.

But they should be ready for the msm's next shot.  They won't give up this easily.

there were no delegates chosen in iowa or nevada either.  They chose state delegates who will then choose national delegates.

These state delegates in most cases don't have to vote for who they pledged for, though I think they are expected to.

So Iowa and nevada were beauty contests too.

On CNN Susanne Malveaux just reported that Obama is laughing, but is also frustrated at the victory rally on TV.

Concerning the black/white breakdown, the exit polls are terrible for Obama.

Of course the exit polls mean nothing because the Obama charm would have meant a 20 point turnaround

It isn't a slur it is a fact.

obama does = jesse. And he made it that way.

His camp played the race card on:

1. fairytale

2. lbj-MLK
   
3. "young and dynamic"
   
4. oprah-obama speaking in code in s.c.

The media wants to talk about how the clintons dealt with the race card being played.

But so far the s.c. and florida voters have understood.  

I said from s.c. that it was a good Clinton night, the msm knew it but tried there best to change it over 4 days.

So far, the truth is winning out, but they have  more days to keep trying.

Is there an understanding between Edwards and Obama behind the scenes?

With two person race Obama would be drowned
as it appears the votes he is slicing are from
Clinton's.

 I mean Edwards slicing Clinton's share.

On CNN they broke down the demographics and pointed out that if these demographics hold up Obama will barely win any delegates on super tuesday

to keep Edwards viable.
when he was stopping the "anti hillary" vote from coming together they were setting up his exit:

1. "He needs to win Iowa"

2. "He must win S.C."

But now they realize he's helping Obama so they go along with him in loser mode.

Edwards has no shame, and no job to go home to.

He might pull a Kucininch and pay himself from campaign funds.

But as the 22 states come, he doesn't get enough to tip the balance.  There are too many people voting.

Next week Hillary will say, twenty some states have voted and we've won twenty some (minus two).  That message means game over.

A couple of other facts:

Hillary got far more votes than McCain

Hillary got nearly one million votes, more than all the votes that Obama got in all the previous primaries put together

Democratic turnout was nearly double this year as in 2004.

Now who is it exactly who is turning out new voters!!!

"I understand that CNN and the Democratic Party have decided to not invite Hillary Clinton to Thursday's debate. It will be limited to male candidates only, just Obama and Edwards."

Perhaps Hillary should add this to her list of grievances.  I hear there's talk of renaming Festivus in her honor.

...Winning over half a million votes in a primary that allegedly doesn't count?

Can you imagine the Floridians turning on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and the Early Show tomorrow morning & hearing Tim Russert and the boys say "Hillary won over half a million votes in a primary that amounted to just a beauty contest."

If I were living in Florida, I'd be pissed hearing that on the news the next morning.

The Clinton campaign and so many of the supporters here have been so busy saying that SC results didn't mean much because it was a "black primary"

If we were to use the Clinton way of approaching primaries, we would have to therefore discount Florida because it was an "old people's primary" since 40% of the voters were over 60 - hardly indicative of the national electorate.

That, of course, would be ludicrous.

But believing that somehow the Florida results represent what Feb 5th will look like it unfounded in fact or common sense. Florida no more predicts what Connecticut or California or New Jersey or Missouri or etc etc will do than Iowa or NH or Nevada or SC did. Every state has their own political culture -- and Florida is as different as every other state.

Florida is a bizarre occurrence in this year's schedule --  a primary without campaigns or candidates, a national party, a state party and a state legislature that screwed over their own voters. No one knows what the results might have been if they had waited until it was legal to hold a primary under party rules, if there had been active campaigns from all the candidates, if delegates had been at stake.

So sure, congrats to Clinton for winning tonight. But attempting to paint this strange political event as indicative of what will happen in a week is completely foolish.

Extend those out over all 20 primary states next Tuesday, and you'll pretty much have the outcome. It seems pretty set it stone at this point in time.