ADDED: Obama wins North Carolina, as expected. CNN calls it. Hillary is ahead in Indiana though, so I'm predicting stasis. And I am going out. Sorry to pop back in when I said I was leaving.
AND: My son, Christopher Althouse Cohen, is writing a lot in the comments here. At 7:04 ET, he said:
Tim Russert just started talking about "Hillary Clinton's victory in Indiana..." and then corrected himself, "uh, if it happens." Interpret however you like.Ha ha.
Carry on.
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«Pinakaluma ‹Mas luma 201 – 223 ng 223Good evening fellow repubicans and lovers of the Bush Doctrine.
Who cares who wins they will never be as dynamic and visionary and exceptional as our current president George W Bush.
Are you all excited about Jenna's wedding?
I can't wait. It will be totally exciting.
Final thought then off to bed.
I supported Clinton and that is over. But look at the Counties BHO won. College towns (Tipp, Monroe, & St Joe), affluent suburbs and cities with large minority pop.
BHO's base is very weak. Will Hillary do everything to merge the coalitions together in the next 6 months. If she does BHO wins and HRC never becomes president. If she doesn't BHO could lose and blame her and she never becomes president.
Watch out for Bubba to be the "bad cop" and Hillary be "good cop".
One final thought. If BHO picks her to be VP he better double his security and get a food taster! That is why I voted for her.
Fellow republicans, who cares about the defeotacrats.
Let's focus on the amazing job of our current president George Bush, who is the best president this country has ever had.
Generally those who advocate a change in the law must justify it.
But the voter ID requirement is the law of the land. So it falls to you to justify changing it.
dude they registered to vote during the Great Depression.
I didn't say they hadn't registered to vote. I drew a parallel between failure to obey one law and failure to another.
Indiana law has required an ID to vote for three years now. The nuns didn't bother getting one. Sucks to be them.
Oh, and one more thing:
macular degeneration can make license renewal difficult.
Maybe they didn't cover this in Fisher Price Law School or wherever it is that you went, but you can get a valid photo ID from the DMV even if you aren't qualified to drive.
Is there any way we can get 4 more years of George W Bush, the most amazing president of our lifetimes?
Fellow republicans, and former defeatocrats, this is a big win for the republicans.
The country is loving and uniting towards the republicans this year and that is the message of the future of this country.
Obviously, the republicans are going to be moving forward in the country.
Thanks God for George W bush.
Now as republicans we need to focus on gay marriage and abortion.
Who gives a shit about gas prices and the war and grocery prices.
The focus needs to be on gays getting married and how that impacts our lives.
That is a winning formula for 2008.
Christopher Althouse Cohen said...
AJ Lynch: I'm likely to support McCain over Obama, even though I'm liberal on most domestic issues, because I think it's much more important that the next President be prepared to defend the security of Israel...
Well, Chris, you should read this article by Marty Peretz. He's extremely pro-Israel and says he trusts Obama on Israel (even though he disagrees with some of the things Obama has said about negotiating with enemies).
Also, don't assume McCain is more hawkish on foreign policy. McCain has criticized Obama for saying we should strike al Qaeda in Pakistan if the Pakistani government won't authorize it. That's clearly a point on which Obama is more hawkish. McCain even made this criticism on the very day that the US actually did launch such strikes!
I won't count on Clinton doing the right thing. But here's hoping.
BHO picking HRC as VP won't help him win. He can get a VP with more Red State cred.
Fellow republicans and lovers of the Bush Doctrine this is a victory for John Mccain as well as our great president George W. Bush.
All John Mccain needs to do is bring George W Bush on the campaign trail and he is a given as a winner.
We can all be rest assured that the republicans will continue on the white house, praise the lord.
But Republicans evidently care little for the rights of the aged who have spent their lives in service to their fellow man.
Evidentally FLS has a bug up his arse about Republicans, one that comes out in every single post. Obnoxious cun7.
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Mortimer: All counties have to report absentee ballots. That's not the reason. And counties don't report the final vote totals all at once.
That would be the difference between apparent and real. For what it's worth:
http://www.post-trib.com/news/elections/lake/934357,LAKERACES0506.article
Maybe they didn't cover this in Fisher Price Law School
That's cold.
Christopher Althouse Cohen said...
There is nothing redder than Bill Clinton's face.
Ah ha! So he wasn't the first black president!
John, it seems like a fairly thin assertion of trust. It "does not appear" to Peretz that Obama shares the left's hostility or indifferences to Israel, while it does appear to him that Obama "believes in the peace process" and that he believes the long-term solution to be the transformation of Palestinian minds. These are thin reeds, and even they are qualified - by his concerns that Obama can't get past talk, and by the presence of "people in his entourage whose feelings about these matters make [Peretz] anxious -- who devote most of their thinking about Israeli-Palestinian peace to the devising of axioms and formulas on how to bring the Israelis to heel."
I think that after the Doug Kmiec incident, we shouldn't assume that previously-announced public commitments diametrically opposed to Obama's commitments will prevent support for Obama, and the lesson of that incident (to me, at least) is that we should hesitate to give announcers the benefit of the doubt that there is some deeper reasoning whose broad outlines they can but sketch for want of space. It's possible that Peretz, like Kmiec, is merely trying to rationalize away the inconvenient obstacle posed by long-held beliefs to supporting a candidate that should be ringing alarm bells.
So, Hillary is in bad shape and guess what? Even Hitchens says that the race is about race.
Sigh.
Surely Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney are turning in their graves.
Nice job Black America. Nice job.
With Lake County 100% reported, the county went for Obama 56% to 44%.
Why has no one questioned the legitimacy of that vote count??
Maybe they held out to make sure the totals didn't swing the state to Obama??
If you move 10,000 votes in Lake County from Clinton to Obmama that would give Obama the state and still leave the percentages of the vote in Lake County at 64% ot 36%. , still a smaller margin than in Marion County.
Not that I think that is what happened...but I don't understand the eagerness with which some jump to the conclusion that the numbers are being adjusted in one direction but no one considers the opposite.
I have no problem with the ID law, but this time around it was enforced in my precinct even more lackadaisically than previously. I had it in my hand, but no one asked about it. I didn't see anyone so much as glance at it. I could've had a credit card in my hand.
My wife (who voted several hours earlier than I) reports the exact same experience.
We live in an overwhelmingly white precinct.
Isn't there something about selective enforcement.....?
Rich, the presumption that any funny business in Lake County would have gone in Obama's favor arises from it being his presumed next-best county after Marion. The proximity to - indeed, contiguity with - Chicago, combined with a relatively high concentration of African-American voters (who have overwhelmingly supported Obama) made it natural territory for him.
Simon,
That Lake County is in Chicago's media market and has a high concentration of African-American voters would be reason to suppose that Lake County would actually vote heavily for Obama.
If there is going to be funny business regarding the counting of the votes, then the parties responsible would be high ranking Democrats who probably have a long history with the Democratic party. So it seems reasonable that such parties may have more allegiance to Clinton than to Obama.
There is always an advantage to having your votes counted last--Ask Christine "Landslide" Gregoire of WA state--took THREE recounts for King county to get it right.
Regarding the clearly racist voting patterns of black Americans, there is this from one of the NRO guys. I think it's spot on.
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