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[rain_gryphon]

So, now McCain has won outright. Huckabee gave a most gracious and patriotic concession speech. It contrasted strikingly with Romney's sullen performance.

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Hillary seems to have carried both Ohio and Texas. CNN has an interesting map of Ohio counties and how they voted. Texas shows the same pattern - large urban areas are 60/40 for Obama, and the rest of the state is about 70/30 for Clinton. You don't have that sharp rural/urban distinction in the Republican races. I foresee unhappiness among the Democrats, no matter which candidate they eventually choose.

Poking around at random on CNN's texas map shows Loving county (that little triangly one where the bottom of the panhandle meets that pointy part) as recording Obama at 32% with 7 votes, and Hillary at 23% with 5 votes. I'm left to wonder who got the remaining 11 votes. I'm guessing one of the locals. Wikipedia shows it to be the least populous county in the States, with only 67 people. I'm always pleased to learn things like that.

There are allegations of serious election tampering regarding Obama's campaign in the Texas caucusses - it's being charged that his people physically prevented Clinton supporters from entering the premises, and stole the caucus chair's paperwork. It wouldn't surprise me, honestly, given that he seems to staff his campaign with college kids, and do his best to keep them worked up to a frenzy.


Edit: This article provides a clue about the remaining votes. Apparently Loving County is so small that they hold a consolidated primary for both parties, and everyone registers as a Democrat. I'm guessing the missing votes went for Republican candidates.

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Gary Gygax has failed his saving roll.

Comments

[oliver-otter.livejournal.com]

I even suspect the caucus tampering came from much higher up than college students. The press doesn't harp on it, but Obama is a product of the Daley family electioneering machine in Chicago. Even if he's not personally tainted (big if), it's a foregone conclusion a lot of the folks around him are.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. I generally expect more subtlety from the Chicago machine.