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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - Posts

  • Lady of the Lake


    Tapping into our Map the Candidates archive , we discover that Clinton has made five stops in Lake County; Obama has made two. That includes one stop from each in Gary. Read More...
  • The Lake Effect


    Warning: The post you’re about to read is very math-heavy, and very speculative. But it’s worth a read if you’re waiting on the returns from Lake County in Indiana, which may not come in until after midnight. Lake County is the only substantial county Read More...
  • "Hillary Deathwatch" Odds: 4.2 Percent


    Obama comes up big in North Carolina, and Clinton ekes out a win (as of 11 p.m.) in Indiana, the combination of which all but ends Clinton's shot at the nomination. Her chances drop 8.4 points to 4.2 percent . For the past few weeks, Hillary Clinton's Read More...
  • Racing Against the Finish Line


    Ever since Barack Obama started racking up primary and caucus wins after Super Tuesday, analysts have summed up Hillary Clinton’s prognosis with an odd statistic: the percent of the vote she needs in every remaining primary to catch up in pledged delegates. Read More...
  • Obama's Back Drop


    Obama is speaking in North Carolina now. At least as far as we can tell, everybody behind him is white. Only one person is male. Read More...
  • The Popular-Vote Death Knell [Updated]


    Right now, Clinton’s best shot at winning the nomination is to overtake Obama in the popular vote. But Obama’s strong North Carolina win could kill Clinton’s chances of winning that metric. Obama currently leads Clinton by about 650,000 votes. (Real Clear Read More...
  • Elastic Expectations: Obama Wins North Carolina


    Barack Obama was always supposed to win North Carolina. Twenty-one percent of the state’s population (Republicans and Democrats) is black; independents (but not Limbaugh-following Republicans ) were allowed to vote; and Obama won both of the neighboring Read More...
  • Exit Polls 101


    Exit polls out of North Carolina suggest that Obama has won the state by about 14 percentage points. While CNN does not report the overall percentages for each candidate, we can divine them by weighting the demographic breakdown between the candidates Read More...
  • Exit Pollapalooza


    Some highlights from the (sketchy, unreliable, not-to-be-trusted) exit polls: How’d Wright play? Thirty percent of voters said the Rev. Wright’s comments were “very important” to their vote. Of them, 69 percent voted for Clinton. Fox News concludes from Read More...
  • Hillary's Dream Scenario


    As we’re waiting for the Hoosier/Cackalack results to come in, what better time to talk long-shot hypotheticals? Let's look at Hillary Clinton’s best-case scenario tonight and what it would mean for her campaign. She wins Indiana by double digits and Read More...
  • Early Voting and the Exit Polls


    Before the networks call the winners in a primary, they don't have much to talk about beside exit polls. (Neither, frankly, do we.) The exit polls are notoriously unreliable, especially because the networks update their numbers as new waves of data come Read More...
  • 124 Days and Counting


    Welp, here we are, 124 days after Iowa caucus-goers had their say, and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are still campaigning to make sure the sun rises tomorrow morning. They’ve made more than 100 stops in Indiana and North Carolina, and, after tonight, Read More...
  • Hillary’s Government by Timeout


    When it comes to policy decisions, Hillary Clinton often follows the rule: When in doubt, call timeout. Rather than find a solution, put everything on pause while we look for a solution. Most recently, Clinton called for a suspension of the gas tax. The Read More...
  • "Hillary Deathwatch" Odds: Still 12.6 Percent


    Not much changes in the last 24 hours before polls open in Indiana and North Carolina, keeping Clinton's chances of winning the nomination at 12.6 percent . So, a quick snapshot: Polls show tightening races in both Indiana and North Carolina . Except Read More...
  • The Other Teamsters Controversy


    The focus of yesterday’s Teamster flap —it hasn’t quite reached ’gatehood yet—centered on whether or not Obama wants to reduce federal oversight of the country’s fourth-largest union. Obama said that the union had done a “terrific job cleaning itself Read More...
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