Primary Results
Quite honestly, I didn’t expect this to happen - looks like Obama will do much better than a 15 percentage point win, and from what I’ve read, Hillary’s lead in Indiana is a bit fragile in that a lot of possibly pro-Obama areas have yet to report.
UPDATE: Obama gives his victory speech - talking of change, as usual…but he still won black voters, young voters, and upper class white voters. This will give him New York, California and New England in November, but not the White House…
UPDATE: Perhaps we should be more careful - latest results show Obama leading 55% to 43% in North Carolina; still a very big win, but not the overwhelmingly crushing victory originally thought.
UPDATE, by Matt Margolis: Hillary wins Indiana. Race continues…
UPDATE: And Hillary once again lays down the marker - she wants Florida and Michigan counted.
UPDATE: Over at The Corner Kathy Lopez feels that Hillary’s statement that she’ll support the Democratic nominee is part of a pre-concession swan song to her campaign - I’m not so sure; Ramesh Ponnuru, meanwhile, points out this interesting bit:
Slice up the voters by ideology, “very conservative” to “very liberal,” and you find that in both N.C. and Ind., Obama did better the further left the voters were. As E. J. Dionne Jr. just pointed out on NPR—we’re commenting on the elections—that is a new and potentially ominous pattern.
Unless America really has become a center/left nation (as our leftists insist it did in 2006), Obama cannot win unless he can appeal more to the center and at least some of the right - at least to the extent of keeping the right from growing too enthusiastic about McCain vis a vis Obama. My view is that America in 2008 is what America has always been - center/right.
6 comments May 6th, 2008
