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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:39 PM
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Wow, Edwards is doing well in West Virginia
My battery is dying so I can't type for long, but I was wondering why the results for Barack and Hillary were << 100% - looked like 7% Edwards?

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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:40 PM
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1. May not be all Edwards
There was a strange amount of uncommitted in NC I believe
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:43 PM
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2. NYTimes results has him and 7% at the moment. nt
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pamela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:43 PM
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3. Yep, CNN has him at 7%!
Go John!
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:44 PM
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4. Sweet!
Gotta love Eddie.
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Yukari Yakumo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:53 PM
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7. That explains a few things
Readjusting the score between HRH HRC and Obama, HRC leads 68.9 to 31.1.

That would put her on track to earn about 19 delegates while Obama would get 9.

Hardly a game changer.
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Austinitis Donating Member (726 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:47 PM
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5. Politico Talks About this
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10300.html">It's no good for Obama:

2) The Edwards protest vote. John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who ended his Democratic presidential campaign in January, remains on the ballot in West Virginia. And he polled at 4 percent in the Suffolk poll, popular primarily with men and independents.

If Edwards gets that much of the vote or more, it could add to the night’s woes for Obama and presage problems for him in a general election matchup with McCain, particularly in rural states such as West Virginia.

Both men have courted independent voters, whom Obama needs to offset votes he’s likely to lose from southern white Democrats reluctant to support a black candidate.

“There are people who for some reason won’t vote for Obama,” said David Paleologos, who directed the Suffolk poll. Edwards’ poll showing, combined with Obama’s relatively low favorability numbers (44 percent favorable and 41 percent unfavorable, compared with Clinton’s 70 percent favorable and 21 percent unfavorable ratings) suggest to Paleologos that “Obama may have to write off West Virginia come November.”

The poll also found 40 percent of respondents would vote for the Democratic nominee if their preferred candidate lost, while 23 percent said they would cross the ballot to vote for McCain.
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liskddksil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:49 PM
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6. Put him in the ticket
Obama / Edwards thats the real dream team.
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