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Posted at 7:02pm on May 6, 2008 The North Carolina Primary Semi-Open Thread

McCain should win the GOP nomination here, too.

By Moe Lane

[UPDATE 10:22 PM - Non-Presidential results include nominating Pat McCrory as the R GOV nominee and will face Lt. Gov. Bev Purdue. Walter Jones, anti-war R incumbent in NC-03, is leading a primary challenger 60-40%. And Ron Paul follower B.J. Lawson leads Augustus Cho 70-30% in the NC-04 primary with a lot of votes left to be counted. - Adam C]

[UPDATE: at 61%, Obama/Clinton 56/42. This will probably tighten further, but he'll almost certainly keep double digits. As I've noted over at the Indiana thread, this is going to excite many Obama supporters, the poor fellows. - Moe Lane]

[Update: At 14%, it's Obama/Clinton 63/35. That number won't last, either, but it looks like a good night for Obama, if not necessarily the Democratic Party. - Moe Lane]

[Update: With a whole 2,200 votes in, Clinton 58%, Obama 38%. CNN's already called it for Obama, for reasons that will undoubtedly be obvious very quickly. - Moe Lane]

Results here: the assumption is that Obama will win this one easily; that notwithstanding, everybody will be sifting through the demographics as if the secret to the Philosopher's Mercury* was hidden somewhere in the crosstabs. Which in a way it will be.

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Posted at 10:18am on Apr. 18, 2007 Them Targetted Dems

By Erick

How are the Freshman Democrat Blue Dogs doing? These are the men and women who beat Republicans in Republican leaning seats and promised to be Republicans without the corruption. Well, Robert Novak has a report card.

Thus far, Gabrielle Giffords, Harry Mitchell, Joe Donnelly, Brad Ellsworth, Nancy Boyda, Heath Shuler, Charlie Wilson, Chris Carney, Jason Altmire, and Nick Lampson have disappointed. In fact, Lampson failed to vote on either the GOP proposed budget or the Democrat budget. And sadly, Gabrielle Giffords, Nancy Boyda, Chris Carney, and Jason Altmire voted in lock step with the Democrats from embryo killing research to eliminating the secret ballot in the workplace.

Chris Carney, whose district gave Bush 60% of its vote and Nick Lampson whose district gave Bush 64% of its vote have both voted in lock step with Nancy Pelosi on every issue, other than Lampson bailing on budget votes.

As Robert Novak notes

By winning a term in 2006 to represent a Republican district, each of the Democratic moderate freshmen earned two years to convince GOP voters that Democrats can look after their interests just as well as Republicans. But to the extent that each votes and thinks Democratic, each also risks a short career that could be over as soon as 2008.

You can read the whole article here.

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