Nothing to report yet, obviously, since voting just started, but I can say that the weather isn’t cooperating. We woke up to thunder and lightening this morning, and the heavy rain is going to change to freezing rain, sleet, and snow as the day progresses.
Gateway Pundit has full election coverage at his site, as does Michelle Malkin.
I’ll be voting in a little while…It’ll be interesting to see how busy the polls are.
Worth Reading today:
On Super Tues., You Call The Play by Michael Graham of the Boston Globe, about the unpredictability of this year’s contests:
Remember how certain you were that the Patriots [team stats] would go 19-0? How Tom Brady [stats] could start making room on his mantle for another MVP award?
That’s how certain political pundits, present company included, have been at every turn in this election.
Just six months ago, all the “smart guys” knew that Hillary Clinton had the nomination in the bag and Rudy Giuliani was her opponent in waiting. The headline “John McCain wins GOP nod” was as unlikely as “Violence in Baghdad down 70 percent.”
Just four weeks ago, Obama “couldn’t get votes from white people,” and most people mistook Mike Huckabee for an opening act in the Grand Ol’ Opry.
Then we had an actual vote in Iowa, and the same geniuses who blew it immediately declared Huckabee a front-runner and Hillary a has-been.
And so it has been after every vote this year: Pontification, bloviation and, afterward, humiliation. And still the pundits blather on.
Another good one:
A Republican(!) journalist from Advertising Age describes his Brooklyn voting experience in My Adventures In Voting Irregularities.
UPDATE:
Well, there was only one person ahead of me at my poll station, so voting was a snap. My husband and I went at 2:30 this afternoon, and the middle school’s (where our polling station is) parking lot was full of cars, and busses because the kids were just being dismissed from school. I would have thought that some of those parents might have killed two birds with one stone, and voted at the same time. But voter turnout was light, at that time.
Anyhoo, I did my civic duty.
UPDATE:
I was listening to local campaign coverage in the car, while I was driving my daughter to dance class. Callers were telling the hosts who they voted for, and why. It’s amazing how out of touch with reality some people are.
A couple of folks (Republicans) switched sides ( you can do that in MO) and voted for Obama because Hillary is sooo scary. But of course, Hillary would be easier to beat in the general…and Obama is more Liberal than Hillary…if they were paying attention at all, they would know that.
One caller said he got a bad feeling about McCain…wasn’t he in favor of Amnesty?
One Marine voting downtown was told there were no Republican ballots. They had to go to the storage room to find him one.
Also interesting:
There apparently are no Republican election night parties in Kansas City. The best one reporter could do was find KMBZ’s Shanin and Park’s radio show broadcasting live from The Hereford House, (a steakhouse, downtown), for election night coverage on the Republican side. Shanin’s a solid Republican, and Parks is an Independent.
The Obama and Clinton Campaigns both had events planned for reporters to cover.
The tally so far, from Drudge (11:00 ct):
CLINTON: AR, AZ, MA, MO, NY, NJ, OK, TN
OBAMA: AL, CT, CO, DE, GA, ID, IL, KS, MN, ND, UT
HUCKABEE: AL, AR, GA, TN, WV
MCCAIN: AZ, CT, DE, IL, MO, NJ, NY, OK
ROMNEY: CO, MA, MN, MT, ND, UT
Delegate Counts so far (from ABC News):
| Biden |
 |
3 |
| Clinton |
|
466 |
| Dodd |
|
4 |
| Edwards |
|
41 |
| Gravel |
|
0 |
| Kucinich |
|
0 |
| No Preference |
|
0 |
| Obama |
|
411 |
| Richardson |
|
5 |
|
Real-time Race Results: Updated February 5, 2008 – 11:58 PM (all times Eastern Standard) |
||
| Candidate | Delegates | |
| Giuliani |
|
1 |
| Huckabee |
|
138 |
| Hunter |
|
1 |
| McCain |
|
411 |
| No Preference |
|
0 |
| Paul |
|
9 |
| Romney |
|
168 |
| Thompson |
|
5 |
| Undecided |
|
0 |
Jim Geraghty says Fox has called CA for McCain.
Well, it’s all over.
McCain will speak to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual convention Thursday at 3 p.m., two and a half hours after Mitt Romney, his chief rival for the nomination and the preferred conservative choice, addresses the crowd.
Nice Deb 