Obama didn’t just win yesterday, he won big enough to maximize his net gain of delegates out of the four contests. In the Virgin Islands, for example, he won 90% of the vote and captured all three available delegates. His strategy going forward is clear.
In squeezing every delegate out of the small and mid-sized states […]

Evidently, Sen. McCain’s reconciliation speech at the CPAC convention really did the trick.
The Washington Post has all the gruesome details here .
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Where does satire begin….
As expected, the Christian right in the guise of the Rev. James Dobson has given Gov Huckabee it’s endorsement.
AP has the full story here
But, the Colbert Nation, too?
(Sorry, can’t embed this one - but it’s worth a
click-through to Comedy Central if you missed Gov. Huckabee’s appearance on […]

At the moment (inc. awarded superdelegates) Sen. Hillary Clinton is said to have 261 (not including possible delegates from Florida and Michigan) and Sen. Barack Obama has 190 (also not including possible delegates from Florida and Michigan). There were 26 candidates awarded to John Edwards before his withdrawal last week.
On the Republican side, […]

The Palm Beach Post has good developing vote counts here
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Isn’t it time someone took a closer look at Gov Huckabee’s unsubtle appeals to the bigots in his party? Yes.
And who else, but the scold of green rooms everywhere, Christopher Hitchens can deliver the required one-two punch?

In this country, it seems that you can always get an argument going about “race” as long as […]

From AJ-CD2001, Williamsport, PA.
There are lots of reasons why this candidacy appeals to me. Not least is that Gov Huckabee represents millions of Americans who keep voting Republican but keep seeing their way of life eroding just the same.
While the Gov might seem regressive on some issues, his interest in helping the ordinary American […]

For all the talk about first and second place, the real count here is in terms of Delegates going forward to the Convention.
The delegate count – from Real Clear Politics – shows the degree to which delegates are determined by numerous factors – the so-called “super-delegates”
Of course, all this might be tossed in the air […]

As the chaotic and unpredictable GOP presidential primary process grinds on, there is one thing we know for certain. Gov Huckabee is unapologetic about his incendiary blend of politics and religious zealotry. Just one week after extolling New Hampshire Congregants to be “soldiers for Christ” in “God’s Army,” the former Arkansas governor […]

This morning, the pundits, led by David Brooks in the New York Times bemoans the civility of last night’s Democratic debate in Nevada: “I’ve seen more conflict at a pacifists’ stir-fry,” he says.
Of course, for these misbegotten souls of the Fourth Estate, conflict is their Raison d’etre. In the absence of substantive “conflict” these […]