Running Primaries Thread

Courtesy of the Hawaii Democrats page:

 

In the words of John McCain, "my friends, that's what I call an ass whipping"

 

I think the central problem with the Hillary campaign is that they are looking at the situation and acting as if the voters are wrong when they should be looking in a mirror. The voters aren't suddenly going to wake up one day and say "Wow, Hillary really is a great candidate." Her campaign needs to pull its collective head out of its ass and do a better job selling Hillary. She's running a generic campaign.
Even Paul Begala was saying they should have launched the campaign with a biographical ad re-introducing Hillary to the public as her own person. I still don't think I "know" who she is and why she thinks what she thinks or what experiences in her life transformed her into who she is today. That's basic stuff.
Another small thing, she usually uses the pronoun "I" in her speeches. Barack frequently uses "we."
Her campaign can try to bring Barack down with attack ads and such, but it's not going to make people want to vote for HRC.
Maybe Obama won't be as good of a president as Hillary would be, but I think his shorter resume offers a bigger "upside," to use a sports cliche, than Hillary's does.
Aloha Obama, Aloha Hillary.

 

Look, the Democrats pick their candidate on the basis of the newcomer who gives the best convention speech. That person gets it in four years.

Maybe I should say "most notable speech" because in 1988, Clinton's sure was crap, but it got him on the late night circuit.

 

From the HI Dems site:

With about 40% of Congressional District One reporting, ballots cast in the district are reported as follows:

Barack Obama 4,302
Hillary Clinton 1,542
Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards received votes falling far short of the 15% required to be allocated a delegate.

With about 20% of Congressional district Two reporting, ballots cast in the district are reported as follows:

Barack Obama 1,134
Hillary Clinton 333

 

For those wondering, CD 1 is urban Honolulu and CD 2 is everyone else in the state.

Local election workers are saying turnout is 20 times normal levels.

 

Sway-In-The-Wind Matthews' assignment is to dig up all the significant Senate legislation with HRC's name on it, and get back to me.

I have all day.

 

I thought HRC was supposed to be a CEO-type president -- and yet she can't even get a full slate of delegates on the ballot in PA?

As that great philosopher says, "D'oh!"

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/15759032.html

 

Welllll, ya know, they figured they'd have it all wrapped up, two weeks ago . . .

Details, details . . .

 

Halfway home in Hawai'i...

51% reporting
Barack Obama 11,691 76%
Hillary Clinton 3584 23%

Aloha, you beautiful island folk.

 

Aloha yourself, haole boy.

Update with 68% of all precincts reporting:

Congressional District One:

Barack Obama 7,698 73.898%
Hillary Clinton 2,649 25.430%

Congressional District Two:

Barack Obama 13,276 75.850%
Hillary Clinton 3,880 22.168%

That's 20,974 to Obama and 6,529 for Clinton if you're scoring at home.

 

With 100% of precincts reporting:

Congressional District One: total votes: 15,550

Barack Obama 11,536 74.19%
Hillary Clinton 3,925 25.24%

Congressional District Two: total votes: 21,876

Barack Obama 16,811 76.85%
Hillary Clinton 4,910 22.44%

That's 28,347 to Obama (75.74 percent) and 8,835 (23.60 percent) to Clinton -- should be 15 delegates for Obama and five for Clinton, though that won't be official until March 1 or so.