UPDATE (11pm ET) – It’s Barack Obama; the 44th President and first African American to be elected Chief Executive. It’s Republican Senator John McCain vs. Democratic Senator Barack Obama to determine the next President of the United States… and we’ll post results here once the major news organizations start calling it… in the meantime, feel [...]
You know, I wrote and drew this week’s Dustinland before this story came out: “Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday.” – (read the full story here) But you know, I think even [...]
“Senators McCain and Obama — you are still U.S. Senators, right? — you have both posted intricate plans on your Web sites detailing what you would do to help the economy recover. What have you done to bring your plan to Congress in the form of a resolution?”
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. You may have wondered why I ducked out of doing political columns, considering my rep and all that. It’s just that I wanted to see how the Demo situation would spin out. I knew a year and a half ago that this was going [...]
Hillary Clinton has won the Kentucky Primaries, beating Barack Obama 65% to 30% with 100% of precincts reporting. Hillary secured 459,145 votes to Barack’s 209,771, and won more delegates, 37-14. On the Republican side, John McCain got 72% of the vote to earn all 42 of KY’s pledged delegates, with Ron Paul getting 7% and [...]
It’s just after 8pm ET and all of the news networks and that Associated Press are calling the West Virginia Primaries for Senator Hillary Clinton, who is reportedly beating Senator Barack Obama 2:1 based on exit polling. We’ll have final numbers here, including how the 28 elected delegates split up, when they are available. On [...]
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 [...]
Former Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes and former Democratic candidate Mike Gravel are still running for U.S. President… but with different parties. Both have released statements (scroll down) recently about joining the Constitution and Libertarian Parties, respectively. Here is an updated List of 2008 U.S. Presidential candidates…
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 [...]