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Obama 338 – 163 McCain
Nov 5th
As you can see from the result above, the Illinois Senator Barack Obama was elected to be the next President of the United States. He will start that job on January 20th, 2009. Results breakdownHere is a graphical representation of who won each state:Here is a simple breakdown of the numbers Choice No. states Democrat…
The ’08 primaries – not many left
May 7th
On May 6th we had the primaries for Indiana and North Carolina. These states were incredibly important for Hillary as it was a chance to build up more late momentum (after her win in Pennsylvania). For Barack Obama, they were a chance to get an even bigger lead in the delegate count prior to the…
Pennsylvania Wars: Clinton Strikes Back
Apr 23rd
Photo taken by Barbara Kinney Before the voting day in Pennsylvania, many people felt that Obama would lose in that state. He was behind in the polls and the citizens are people who fall into the categories that typically vote for Clinton. However, I’m always skeptical about polls – especially after the surprise in Iowa…
Two Democrats and a Republican
Mar 5th
The following is the results from the Democrat primaries which took place on March 4th: State Candidate Vote %age Delegates Texas Hillary Clinton 51 16 Barack Obama 48 10 Ohio Hillary Clinton 54 62 Barack Obama 44 46 Vermont Hillary Clinton 60 9 Barack Obama 38 6 Rhode Island Hillary Clinton 58 12 Barack Obama…
Texas – did we need the debate?
Feb 23rd
I started watching the Texas Democrat debate on YouTube (one which, like many of the others before, ignored Mike Gravel) and I started wondering if this was going to give information about the candidates that I haven’t heard before in the other debates. The opening statements from Obama and Clinton were interesting. It didn’t take…
The Potomac primaries
Feb 13th
Barack Obama is building up a lot of momentum, especially after his successes in the Potomac primaries. John McCain solidified his lead by winning in all three of the states that were voting (this happened on February 12th). The tables below are the results. Democrats State Candidate Vote % Delegates Columbia Barack Obama 75 9…
Mitt Romney drops out of the race
Feb 8th
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massechusetts, dropped out of the race to be the GOP nomination for the presidency yesterday. I’m surprised he didn’t stay until the end of the race, even though it looked even more likely that John McCain would win. He said this on the night of Super Tuesday: “We’re going…
Super Tuesday
Feb 6th
This is possibly the biggest event in the races to decide the GOP and Democrat nominations for the presidency. Twenty four states have been holding primaries or caucuses (a lot have had these for both parties). The table below shows the winners and the delegates they gained: State Democrats(Del) GOP(Del) Alabama Obama(20) Huckabee(14) Alaska Obama(29)…
Obama vs Clinton – the CNN debate
Feb 1st
You can see the first part of the debate here. There are links to the other parts here. The has to have been the tightest debate I’ve seen so far. There were so many of the topics where both of the candidates were even, but I think Obama was the overall winner. He won more…
More dropouts during election season
Jan 31st
Yesterday we found out that both Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards dropped out of the race to be the nomination for their respective parties. I wasn’t particularly surprised about Rudy going – as I mentioned in my last post, he put an awful lot of work into winning Florida and he only finished third. That…
