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Ivan Seeking
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CNN projects Romney the winner.
Michigan Total
Gokul 6 27
Ivan 6 27
Astronuc 6 25
Evo 6 25
BobG 4 24
Coin 15
Art 4 12
Maxwell 8
opensecrets.org said:1. Romney - $53 million
2. Obama - $44 million
3. Clinton - $40 mil
4. Giuliani - $31 mil
5. McCain - $30 mil
6. Edwards - $18 mil
7. Richardson (out)
8. Dodd (out)
9. Biden (out)
10. Thompson - $6 mil
11. Paul - $3 mil
12. Kucinich - $2 mil
13. Hunter - $2 mil
14. Huckabee - $2 mil
15. Gravel - $ 0.3 mil
16. Keyes- $0 mil
opensecrets.org said:1. Clinton - $50 mil
2. Obama - $36 mil
3. Giuliani - $17 mil
4. Edwards - $12 mil
5. Romney - $9 mil
6. Thompson - $7 mil
7. Paul - $5 mil
8. McCain - $3 mil
9. Huckabee - $0.7 mil
10. Kucinich - $0.3 mil
11. Hunter - $0.1 mil
12. Gravel - has to bum bus fare back home
*excludes candidates that have dropped out
BobG said:South Carolina
1. McCain
2. Huckabee
3. Thompson
Ivan, I hope you really wouldn't want this guy in charge of a country, any country. But, as we know, his inablity to get out of single digits THANKFULLY means he's not a viable candidate.Ivan Seeking said:Go Ron Paul! I love it!
Evo said:It's no surprise that bible thumping Huckabee wouldn't go over in Nevada. I'm surprised about McCain though, he's the most non-frightening of the Repubicans. Hard core Republican blogs are really bad mouthing McCain because he is too liberal.
If Clinton and Obama are essentially tied when the campaigns are approaching the convention, then I would imagine Edwards will be trying to make deals with either for support.Gokul43201 said:Interesting Stat: Among all the states with completed primaries/caucuses, Clinton has not beaten Obama on the delegate count in any of them. They are tied in Iowa and Nevada. And in NH, which Clinton won, she gained 1 less delegate than Obama! But the superdelegates in the states yet to come up overwhelmingly favor Clinton...so far.
You're right, the results I saw hadn't been updated.Ivan Seeking said:He is into double digits.
Among Republicans, Romney leads with 64 delegates to 21 for Huckabee, 18 for McCain, eight for former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson and five for Paul, according to the CNN count. The Republican nominee needs 1,191 delegates.
You and I part ways here, I think he's just a bit more than a tad insane. Seriously, I get the impression when listening to him of the naivety of a 10 year old.I fail to see how anyone including Paul could be worse than what we've had.
It looks like for Republicans, it will be between McCain and Romney, but there is still the chance that the hard core Christian right will pull through for Huckabee. An interesting note with McCain leading in SC is that no Republican presidential candidate has won their party's nomination without winning the South Carolina primary.Gokul43201 said:What happens, if come Convention time, there is no candidate with an overall majority?
Well - they'll go through one round, and then negotiations start. Or the guy in third place makes a deal that puts either of the first two over the top in exchange for VP or something like that.Gokul43201 said:What happens, if come Convention time, there is no candidate with an overall majority?
I've only heard about this in similar, somewhat vague terms. When was the last time this happened?Astronuc said:Well - they'll go through one round, and then negotiations start. Or the guy in third place makes a deal that puts either of the first two over the top in exchange for VP or something like that.
One local commentator mentioned 'backroom deals' with characters like the cigar smoking political advisor played by William Frawley in the Miracle on 34th St.
Not even if misguided celebrities endorse him? He doesn't have any celebrity endorsements, does he? Pretty sad if you can't get a celebrity endorsement. :tongue2:Gokul43201 said:Having sold his soul to the Republican party for the Primaries, I don't think Paul will be allowed to run in the General Election as a third party candidate.
:rofl:gokul said:PS: Dr. Phil is probably too busy to vote this year. His current project - a daunting one - is to see if he can actually make Britney more of a mess than she already is.
Ivan Seeking said:Has anyone else been following the voting machine fiasco? What a joke! We will have no way to know if the election in SC is legit because there is no paper trail.