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3 delegates per each of the 8 Congressional districts are awarded to the winner of that particular district (24 total), and the remaining 16 delegates (10 at-large, 3 bonus, 3 party) go to the statewide winner. The 1/3rd minimum rule shouldn't apply as there are only 2 active candidates and 1 semi-active candidate.

...but it is sub-zero weather in Wisconsin today.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/driving/interstate/local/USWI0455?from=se...

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

It will drop off tonight. -2 tonight with a high of like +10 tomorrow and -10 tomorrow night.

Lots of Wii time with the kids.

Worse, my local voting place was moved out of the subdivision, so I can't just wander down and check on it. I was voter #47 at about 7:30 this morning. If my dad would turn on his cell, I could call and ask him; he's working the polls today.

I was voter number 91 at 8:00 AM - in the Fox valley. Steve Kagen's district (Ugh!). I did not wait more that 15 seconds to vote. Traditionally it's busier in the evening in my area - but I was dropping off my kids at school (because I can't, in good concious, have my ten year lug his backpack AND baritone to school in 5 degree temps) so I voted early.

I voted Obama and my wife will vote Hillary!. If all goes well WI will split 50/50 in Dem delegates.

We're both conservative - so we'll vote differently in November. But I'm really hoping for a knock down, drag out at the Dem convention.

Listening to WTMJ-AM news now, and they mentioned Germantown polls were busier than they had been in the past. Of course, since Wisconsin hasn't mattered in the last couple dozen years, that means nothing.

That's the word from the state election officials.

We'll see. It's sunny (for now), but brutal-cold.

My brother and I just voted (1PM central time) at the court house in Monroe County. We're about 25 miles east of La Crosse, WI and the Mississippi river. Right now it's 9 degrees and with the windchill factored in, it's -6. There was a steady stream of people in and out of the court house to vote. When we fed our ballots into the optical scan machine we were number 832 and 833. We didn't wait more than 1 minute to get our ballots and there were 10 voting "stations" set up. We were done in 90 seconds.

We are both conservative, evangelical christians and have voted republican 99% of the time, as does our entire family. Today we both voted for Obama and I'll tell you why - we don't want hillary, bill or their machine getting anywhere near the white house ever again.

Short of a Huckabee miracle, and I mean a "parting of the red sea" or "raising Lazarus from the dead" miracle, McCain will be the republican nominee. The consensus among our church friends and family is quite divided. About half planned to vote for Obama for the above mentioned reasons and the other half were planning to vote for Huckabee to voice their unhappiness and resentment towards McCain.

We basically took advantage of our states open primary system to help put a nail in hillary's coffin. If this had been a close, 2 person republican race we would have voted for Huckabee.

My final comment is this; McCain really needs to choose a VP that is a "home run" in every area and also to fill in his gaps. This time around I sense that the VP choice could be a deal breaker for many people.

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You deserve what you tolerate!

You just helped a man who is TO THE LEFT of Hillary on abortion, and is generally more liberal than her on most things as well.

Who cares if everyone hates her. If she somehow gets to the White House, that will just be all the more reason that Republicans will oppose anything and everything she tries to do.

Voting for Obama was an absolutely terrible decision in every sense of the word.

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

I am recommending that all of my family in Tarrant and Dallas County vote Hillary next Tuesday.
The only way I change my mind is if McCain does not win WI today.

He's doing what he thinks is best and you're clocking him for who he voted for in a DEMOCRATIC primary.

Ease up a bit.

(you too c17wife .. couldn't figure out how to "reply to" both of you at the same time).

wrong in his reasoning. That's all.

...because I think the results of the Democrat primary impact the GOP's chances in November.

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

Just try to relax. We're all* on the same side here.

* We do have trolls, but we're working on that :-)

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"If she somehow gets to the White House..."

Here's the deal, my friends; If John McCain cannot win in November on his own merits, then why is he going to probably end up as our party's nominee?

Bueller... Bueller... Bueller...

Most seriously - I don't claim to have the right or best answer to that question. Did Karl Rove play the political game so well for so long that our party is now carved up into the disagreeing, unhappy factions that we are? Can McCain be the majority consensus candidate? If he's not, then who didn't run that should have? I don't know the right answers - the historian's and the intellectual's will debate this for years to come.

I understand that some in our party would prefer to run against hillary because she'll unwittingly help us raise lots of money for the fall and hopefully help turn out lots of people to vote against her that are considering staying home because they don't like McCain. But the only way that I can help stop hillary from winning in November is to make sure that she loses the dem nomination. That's my simple answer.

I will most gladly vote for John McCain even though he wasn't my first choice. I am one of the people who do actually understand the importance of the GWOT and the SCOTUS for this election. I wonder if all republicans really realize that several current SC justice's practically have formaldehyde IV's because they're just waiting for a dem president in 2009 who will replace them with another liberal. This election has real historical consequences.

People like Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson and other well known unnamed radio personalities who bash McCain will pay a steep price if a dem wins this fall and screws the SCOTUS and hurts our military strength. Too bad right-wing radio doesn't do their job of rallying the party for the nominee - I'm sooo tired of the daily wining and bitchfest's that go on. Rush and Ann Coulter prefer hillary over McCain? Reeeally? Well, as my mother used to say; "I've warned you, so don't come crying to me when you fall out of that tree and crack your head open." I can't say it any nicer.

I vote every four years for the republican presidential candidate but since my purple (bordering on lavender) state of WI usually goes dem, I basically get cancelled out.

God forbid that any dem gets into the White House. But if John McCain loses in November after our party nominates him and I vote for him, my hands will be clean.

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You deserve what you tolerate!

That is exactly why I voted Obama when I voted here in the Fox Valley. I saw the Clinton machine (with the help of that boob Perot) win once it got the nomination - even though I thought there was no way that idiot from AK would get elected -and there is now way in heck I'm going to let them get that close again.

Obama is an empty suit who makes you feel good while he's taking your money. In the off chance that he get elect POTUS he will be fought tooth nail and 2010 will be a clean sweep for the Repubs in the house and the Senate.

But if any of you think Obama will nominate a SCOTUS judge that's somehow more liberal than Hillary!, you're fooling yourself. Both Dems are bad.

with a rifle! Well, if that was actually her words, I guess we have another Annie on our hands.

Formally known as Deagle... "Golf is a way of life..."

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

probably their advanced knowledge of firearms rather than her statement in the article that I read. Of course, Hillary could just be lying again.

Formally known as Deagle... "Golf is a way of life..."

...Hillary at one point wanted to join the Marines, but they wouldn't let her.

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

I thought only people in Illinois got to vote multiple times...

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I meant 40. Got my numbers confused.

unfortunately as they aren't bindable.

we'll have to go to texas / ohio to finish off Huck.

n/t

More women than men, 60% non-college graduate, 90% white... this is probably not good news for the Obama campaign.

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Missouri was 76% white, 56% female, 67% non-college graduate.

Connecticut was 59% female, 82% white.

Still, Team Obama is maybe sweating this a little more than they were 24 hours ago.

And if he wins, he's gained nothing?

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...would be status quo; a loss, as Moe points out, would be really bad for Team O; a big win (10+ points) would be a pleasant surprise for 'em. That's how I read it, anyway.

I figure that means a 51-48 race and pick 'em.

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says his exit polls are showing some O-memtum. But I know not to put much stock in theoretical exit polls when there's two-plus hours to go. I'll stick with Obama a few above fifty, Clinton around 45, and a delegate split of maybe 40-34. I'd stake one beer but not a six-pack on it.

Yingling: six pack.
Tilburg's: one beer, maybe two.
Domestic: take the freaking case anyway.

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...not the numbers.

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Fair enough!

He tied (if you use Obama's own total delegate rule-of-thumb for winning NV). :)

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were underrepresented.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.

According to 2006 census data, 90% is right on the money for white folk.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.

...what was MD's 61/36, VA's 64/35, and DC's 75/24?

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I think it comes down to expectations. She was expected to have problems in MD, VA and DC. And she was supposed to engineer some way to come back in WI. If she doesn't, she's supposedly dead in the water.

Erik

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The Dem primary still had some doubt, the R primary had an incumbent president.

You see, we get to *define* Obama in the eyes of the public between now and November, should he win the nomination.

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getting rid of the Clintons once and for all is a for bigger thing to me than the threat of Mr. Hope.

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Hillary might squeak by McCain, but Obama will bring in a wave of Democrats to build on their majority in the House and Senate. He will actually get to enact his awful policies while Hillary would struggle to get any kind of consensus, imo. She would arrive weak and only get weaker in the next 4 years and would be prime for defeat in 2012.

Obama as the Democrat nominee will kill the Republican Party for the next decade. IMO, we will become near irrelevant. Hoping for an Obama win is like having a death wish.