Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania Primaries by 9.2%, 54.6 to 45.4, winning in delegates 74 to 67. With delegates to be determined, John McCain won in PA with 72.8% of the vote to 15.9 for Ron Paul and 11.3 for Mike Huckabee. The latest delegate totals (2,025 are needed to clinch the [...]

Our district is a middle class Italian, Irish and Jewish-American community. Some places are wealthier than others. Howard Beach and Forest Hills Gardens are the envy of the community, but the more modest blue-collar liberals live in attached, semi-attached, or multifamily homes in Middle Village, Glendale, Maspeth, Woodhaven, and Ozone Park (where I’m from). We are good people; defending Clinton when he was being impeached, welcomed his wife with open arms when she came to ask to be our representive in Washington. We bore the brunt of the September 11th attacks, lost family, friends, neighbors by the handfuls. We are anti-war, pro-choice, homosexuality doesn’t bother us, Bush is a war criminal (even if he wasn’t four years ago), guns are the tools of the devil, and those crazy Christian nutzos down South are a threat to our nation.

Fox News was first to call Mississippi for Barack Obama, with NBC News following less than 20 minutes after the polls closed, and CNN and AP following shortly thereafter.

As of Midnight ET, the Associated Press, NBC News, New York Times, RealClearPolitics.com and several other news sources are projecting Hillary Clinton as the winner of the Ohio and Rhode Island Democratic Primaries, and Barack Obama as the winner in Vermont. UPDATE 1:30AM ET: CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are calling the Texas Primary for [...]

With Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island elections tomorrow, here are the latest delegate counts for the two Democratic candidates still in the race mathematically (Mike Gravel is still technically in the race, but has yet to win any delegates), according to NBC News: Hillary Clinton 1037 elected delegates, 254 superdelegates = 1291 total Barack [...]

Trying to keep track of all the Caucrary goodness? We’ve got a handy chart for you here on moodspins, and if you’re keeping score at home, here are the latest standings as of February 25, 2008. (Even though Iowa has already taken place, delegates will be decided officially by June 14 and Wyoming GOP delegates [...]

Now that the issue with the fair and balanced New York Times is for the most part behind us, we can look ahead at the general election between John McCain and what is beginning to look more and more like Barack Obama. Things can still change. My personal belief is that if Hillary Clinton wins [...]

NBC News is reporting that John McCain and Barack Obama have won the Wisconsin Primaries. McCain has also won the Washington Republican Primary, and Obama won the Hawaiian Democratic Caucus.