I’ve watched my candidate take a pounding from MSM and most of Left Blogostan and it has made me sick. I’ve been excoriated on “liberal” blogs for being a Hillary supporter with more vitriol than I used to get attacked by Rightwing Trolls.

The Primary is probably all over but the shouting and I think Obama will win.

I don’t like Republicans and so will never vote for McCain. But I don’t like sexists and their surrogates any better and thus my conscience and my integrity will never allow me to vote for Obama.

My republican family all voted in the democratic primary in order to affect the outcome. This has never happened before. We have an open primary and my mom and Dad voted for Obama because they didn’t want Clinton to win…and my sister and brother in law supposidly voted for Clinton (they are extreme Clinton haters) because they think McCain can beat her…but they also hate McCain. From the sounds of it, many GOP voted against Clinton by voting for Obama…so who knows how to interpret the results..

What was very apparent though, that the main male politician, Govenor and Milwaukee mayor supported Obama and all the women….L. Gov, mayor Madison, Rep Tammy Baldwin,plus about 10 others all support Clinton. She was snowed in here on Sunday and they all drove around and had great fun dropping in on places unexpectedly. She did not expect to win because of the open primary structure and did just enough to make sure that she still gets delegates.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Bob in HI

Everyone had to go to their precinct table to await the official time for the caucus vote, 7:00 – 7:30 PM. The procedure was that everyone had to sign in at their precinct, get a ballot and vote. Unfortunately, we had no microphone or loudspeakers in the room full of hundreds of people! The poor district president had to try to shout over the din to move us along to the next point on the “agenda”.

It was then up to the precinct officers (like me) who had to match up sign-ins with votes in order to validate. We didn’t have to match each vote with each sign-in, but the totals had to match. We basically had to trust that people would not vote unless they had signed in, and that they would only vote once! Some precincts quickly ran out of Precinct Sign-in forms, and I barely had enough. Our tables were filled to overflowing. Once balloting started at 7:00, there was mayhem for a while. In my precinct, everyone left as soon as they voted. No one in my precinct stayed for the “party business” that was supposed to come next. But even after my tables had voted and emptied out, there were still long lines with new voters, and newly registering Democrats who needed to know what precinct they were in. Consequently, I was kept busy with a trickle of voters long after the voting was supposed to end. Finally, about 8:00, we got the call (or “shout”) to start counting ballots. Of course, the ballots in each precinct had to be signed off by two people. By this point, I was the only person left in my precinct, so I had to get help from another precinct.

There were FOUR names on the ballot: Clinton and Obama, of course, but also Kucinich and Edwards, even though they had dropped out, and “Uncommitted.”

My precinct, most of which was easy walking distance from the school Obama attended, went heavily for Obama, 56-8. All precincts in our District went heavily for Obama, about 3:1.

Bob in HI

Poll after poll is now showing Obama opening up double-digit leads over McCan’t across the country, while at the same time, Hillary loses to St. John almost across the board. My own anecdotal evidence backs this up, and most people that leave comments here as well.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talk…..lltracker/

Some people are having a hard understanding what’s happening with Obama’s campaign. The old tricks don’t work anymore. People are tired of it. It’s a whole new era in America. The more Hillary tries to “go negative,” the more ground she loses, so it logically follows that if someone tries to get more negative, they’ll fall even farther.

Only time will tell how Obama will actually be as a President, but that’s true of anyone. And Deval Patrick has done some dumb things already, so if as you say he’s dropping in popularity (any proof of that?), I’d say it’s about some petty decisions he’s made. Deval and Barack are two entirely different people with radically different backgrounds.

for precinct caucus on feb 4, call obama campaign to get a ride to your precinct. or vote right before the caucus and do it all at once.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com…..id=topnews

wise words … we gotta win the nov GE big cause they’re sure gonna do everything they can to steal it … only chance is waaay big margins.