The votes aren't all counted, but Super Tuesday is officially over. The pundits predicted that the Democratic race would be far from over after last night, and that's the outcome they got. But considering how many states in which Hillary Clinton was leading in the weeks leading up to the big day, Barack Obama far exceeded expectations.
Hillary Clinton took the big prize, which was California, despite the fact that Barack Obama won the majority of both the white and black votes. Latinos and Asians in that state voted overwhelmingly for Clinton. Exit poll data from CNN.com shows that the vast majority of white women and most Latinos voted for Hillary Clinton, while Barack Obama won most of the youth vote and the black vote.
When all was said and done, Obama won in Illinois, Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota and Utah, while Clinton took California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. New Mexico is still too close to call.
In some of the states, like Missouri, where the race was very close, the candidates split the delegates nearly in half. As of now, Clinton has 825 delegates and Obama has 732. Prior to the elections, Obama's camp said they would be comfortable if they were within a margin of 100 delegates by the end of Super Tuesday.
In GOP news, John McCain won the big states, including California, but failed to completely eliminate Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee (who did well in the South) from the race. Last night, all of the pundits were talking about a possible McCain/Huckabee ticket, since Huckabee has the "Southern values" (y'all know what I mean) that McCain needs to win over a wider portion of the GOP base.
While neither race is over, political types are saying that the Democratic issue may not be resolved until the Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4th — at the earliest.
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I watched the results last night on ABC. I thought that by the morning there would be a clear winner, but I'm glad Obama is still in the race. I didn't expect Obama to win as much as he did, I really thought it was going to be Hilary all the way. I wasn't really paying attention to the Republican side, although I hear Huckabee was the surprise of the night.
Obama has a huge latino problem. He lost them overwhelmingly in pretty much every state except his own (Illinois), and he barely won them there. Hispanics will be the reason he wins or loses this election, if he becomes the nominee. Blacks and Latte drinking whites can only take him so far.
Hillary has the democratic base (working class whites, women,latinos,etc), and they came out strong for her in the big states. Her wins in Mass, and California were huge fuck you to Oprah,Maria Shriver, and Ted Kennedy. So much for the supposed Kennedy Mystique. Haha
I voted for Hill yesterday without a moments hesitation. As a New Yorker, I had to support the New York senator. I love how all the poll workers assumed I was voting for the "brotha" though.
@ Solitaire:
I disagree with your take about Obama winning or losing the election with Latinos. Remember, while Clinton certainly has an overall Latino advantage, 1/3 of CA votes were absentee votes cast 3 to 4 weeks ago. Obama earned 163 CA delegates to Clinton's 202.
The only upcoming state with a sizable Latino population that will have much influence is Texas. And it can not be ignored that Obama, who was nearly ghettoized by the Clintons during the SC primary, won huge margins of victory in majority white states like Idaho, North Dakota, Kansas, Alaska and Colorado - not all of which are filled with blacks and "latte drinking whites". He also surprised many by winning Missouri and Connecticut.
It is still very much a race - and time is on Obama's side
I don't know where you hget your delegate numbers, since they have'nt finished adding them up yet. Also, according to CNN Hillary is leading Barack in overall delegates and super delegates.
As far as Missouri goes, he BARELY one that state. His margin of victory was 1%, and Hillary actually won the maajority of that states delegates, since she won more counties.
Obama won victories in small states with few delegates, and little impact on the overall election.
Hillary won ALL of the big states with the most delegates.
Latinos are the LARGEST MINORITY in the country, and blacks need to realize that sooner rather than later. There are more of them than us, and not all of them are in Texas. He or Hillary will not win the election without them. He will not coast into the white house on the black and latte drinking white crowd alone. Latinos, working class whites, and older voters are the base of the party, and Hillary has them right now.
But yes, the race is still on.
The Latinos I know voted for Obama but I'm not surprised with all the Black v. Brown crap going on in states like CA, etc. that Hillary got them. It's been said that the Billary camp preyed on those twisted ideas. I hope it's not true but it reminds of how Bush brought out his Hispanic nephew to campaign and get the Latino vote. Pitting people against each other or fakely showing how down you are with a certain group (Bill at EVERY Black church-LOL)is lame but it works. Unfortunately….