The Day After Super Tuesday

While I was asleep, it appeared Biden won Texas while Maine still remained a tossup. 

Sanders supposedly won California, but his margin wasn't as expected, and there are still millions of ballots outstanding before the final apportionment of delegates can be determined.

In other words, Sanders got the shit kicked out of him after all the media hype he was going to run the table last night.  Warren also got trounced, most embarrassingly in her own state, a state where winner Biden spent just $11,000 in.  She came in third there.

Was it because she was a woman?  Was it because voters there were pissed off she ran for president in the first place? Did voters want her to remain in the Senate rather than go on a fool's quest?    Or was her pandering to transactivists at the expense of women's rights a factor, as she was the ONLY candidate who went out of her way to pander to them?  Pete Buttigieg did not do this, but Warren would pander to these people almost on a daily basis to the point it was embarrassing when she read off the names of the very, very, very few "trans women" (i.e., male crossdressers) who were murdered as opposed to the names of the 1,600 WOMEN who are murdered each year because of domestic violence.  It was very alienating to women like me and one of the reasons I rejected her candidacy early on.

I think the biggest reason Sanders got the shit kicked out of him last night lies in the simple fact there were and are very few caucuses this time around.  Sanders and his goons got to pack the caucuses last time, and packing those caucuses plus winning the California primary in 2016 made him competitive with the eventual winner, Hillary Clinton.  One of the reforms Clinton proposed after the 2016 elections was eliminating the caucus system.  The caucus system is too flawed, though fun to participate in, with peer pressure more than candidate support being the important factor in the selection of said candidate.

Sanders will remain in the contest to try and further ratfuck the Democratic Party and sow division in its ranks.  His ego is too monstrous to be reined in.  Warren and Bloomberg should seriously consider getting  out.

Biden was always going to be the nominee the minute he announced his candidacy.  The field never should have been as big as it was in the primary season.

Super Tuesday Results

The projections have started to come in as Sanders has won Vermont (no surprise) and Biden has won Virginia (no surprise).

Sanders also won Colorado and Utah.

A link is here to the results.

Biden also won Arkansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Alabama.

Bloomberg scored a giant win in American Samoa, as he was the only candidate who ran ads there.

Rumor has it Bloomberg is considering his options after his stunning victories of tonight.

Meanwhile, Sanders gave his usual stump speech trashing the Democrats while ostensibly running for the Democratic Party nomination.  The man's ego knows no bounds:



Some vegan whack jobs tried to storm Biden's rally in L.A. tonight, no doubt influenced by the truly crackpot Joaquin Phoenix's stupid Oscar acceptance speech, but they were thwarted in the end.

As for Warren, she finished third in her home state.  She started her campaign fairly strong, but then she fizzled out during the fall, especially after withering criticism of her support for Medicare for All.  But in the end, sexism likely played a huge role in her downfall.

I Totally Agree

with this poster, and it's worth posting here in its entirety:

Super Tuesday is done. The Potomac Primaries approach. Things have evolved.

Now it appears that the Republican nominee will be John McCain. Let me tell you something: I would rather have George W. Bush as president than John McCain. McCain is MORE of a warmonger than Bush and more of a cronyism-driven conservative. His "straight talk" is mostly bull -- he's changed his tune more often than Mitt Romney -- and he's maybe the biggest kiss-ass of the bunch as far as religious lunatics and "decency" bluenoses are concerned (despite the fact that his wife is a former stripper and prostitute).

Furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, I believe that he is insane. He is always teetering on the verge of losing it in a temper tantrum that would be the envy of any petulant nine-year-old kid, and the only reason he hasn't exploded publicly is that the press always, ALWAYS, treats him with kid gloves. He has a crusader's mindset about the Muslim world that may exceed even that of Bush's neocons. His economic ideas are absolutely 180 degrees reversed from what we need. Does anyone sane really think that Federal spending on such programs as Medicare and Medicaid is what has brought us to our current sorry state of affairs?

Since when does languishing in a Vietnamese POW camp make you a military strategist? Since when does being a senator from Arizona provide you with foreign policy experience? Everything this guy advocates is 100% wrong. He's WORSE than Bush!

The attacks on him by right-wing radio hosts was nothing but a ruse. It was a deliberately contrived strategy orchestrated for the benefit of undecided moderates AFTER it became clear that McCain would be the nominee. It leaves him in a stronger position to feign moderation during the general election campaign. It gave him plausible deniability he will be able to play on when confronted with questions about his arch-rightwing record.

And, of course, the mainstream press has eaten it up.

On the other hand, we are left with a virtual, if not an actual, tie on the Democratic side. Obama and Clinton, with their relative strengths and weaknesses that so closely balance each other out, are more-or-less right about every issue and policy but have liabilities as candidates that leave McCain in an unusually strong position. As I have said before, if either Clinton or Obama becomes our nominee, I don't give us even a 30% chance of winning the general election next November. I'll explain why a little farther down.

But, although my hopes about so many things have proven utterly false in recent years, this gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, we can come all the way to the convention without a winner. This will give our convention HUGE additional exposure, and in a much better light than the heinous time we had of it in 1968, the last time our nomination remained in doubt after such a tumultuous spring.

Not only will this blunt the effects of the Republican slander machine, it might give us the opportunity to pick somebody else. I know that the chances of this are very, very small, but we do have several other candidates we could run who might have a much easier time against the likes of John McCain, and even carry enough senate races to prevent filibusters (even after kicking Lieberman out of every committee) and actually get things done.

I have explained at length in previous pieces why I believe that Obama and Clinton are weak candidates -- the weakest two among our original field -- for the general election. In brief, Obama has many factors that the Republicans will use to slander him successfully. Clinton has been the target of sixteen YEARS of their slanders, and that has taken a toll that may be impossible to reverse. Don't forget that the television press in particular will shine a much harsher light on our candidate than they will on John McCain.

But that's not all. Because the only "credible" (and I use that word with a grain of salt the size of the Rock of Gibraltar) source of information about the war and statistics about the economy is ultimately the Bush administration, this information will be manipulated to present the state of our prosperity and the progress of the war in a highly favorable light. Conditions, both domestically and militarily, will be painted as improving during the months leading up to the election whether they actually are or not. People will forget that it was not Bush himself but the whole conservative/neocon/supply-side philosophy that got us into this mess, and the election itself will be portrayed as a referendum on whether we should support stability or embark on the risky proposition of changing horses in midstream, and doing so during a sever storm and raging waters. They won't think of where the storm's lashes and waters' rage originated, and instead just raise doubts about our uncertain future.

We have a very, VERY tough row to hoe during this campaign. They will CERTAINLY unite behind McCain, and the candidates we currently offer will energize their base to an extent greater than anything we have ever seen. They will do everything they can to, on the one hand, blunt the mandate for change, and on the other hand, present John McCain as the candidate of wise and prudent change.

I pray we come into the convention without a frontrunner, and that it goes into a fourth-ballot free-for-all. I see it as our only hope, and it is a slim hope at that.
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Both candidates need to be ditched in favor of somebody far better. We had that chance with John Edwards, and, to a lesser extent, Joe Biden. But the media didn't want them.

The WSWS

has commentary on yesterday's races.

Apparently New Mexico hasn't been decided. Obama won the Alaska caucuses, like he won all of the others, and this is why his wins aren't as big a deal as Hillary's wins.

Missouri turned out as basically a tie, with Obama eking out a tiny win there.

Hillary

has won California.

I am hearing Obama has won Missouri.

That would be good for him, but it's kind of over. If it weren't for his strong showing in IL, CT, and the caucus states, he'd be up the creek.

McCain won the state. This is probably the end of Romney.

Clinton

has won Arizona.

I fully expect her to take California.

Obama's

won the Colorado caucuses.

Current stats:

CLINTON: AR, MA, MO, NY, NJ, OK, TN
OBAMA: AL, CT, CO, DE, GA, ID, IL, KS, MN, ND, UT

HUCKABEE: AL, AR, GA, MO, TN, WV
MCCAIN: AZ, CT, DE, IL, NJ, NY, OK
ROMNEY: CO, MA, MN, MT, ND, UT

Huckabee

has won Georgia.

Clinton

has won Missouri.

More.

Mitt wins Utah.

Obama won the North Dakota caucus and Utah.

He wins Connecticut, Idaho, and Minnesota.

Here is the current list:


AL: OBAMA
AR: CLINTON
CT: OBAMA
DE: OBAMA
GA: OBAMA
ID: OBAMA
IL: OBAMA
KS: OBAMA
MA: CLINTON
MN: OBAMA
ND: OBAMA
NY: CLINTON
NJ: CLINTON
OK: CLINTON
TN: CLINTON
UT: OBAMA

AR: HUCKABEE
CT: MCCAIN
DE: MCCAIN
IL: MCCAIN
MA: ROMNEY
NJ: MCCAIN
NY: MCCAIN
OK: MCCAIN
UT: ROMNEY
WV: HUCKABEE

McCain

has won Oklahoma.

Obama

won Kansas.

He'll probably do well in the caucus states, but Hillary is winning big in the primary states.

John McCain

has won New York.

Obama wins Alabama.

Clinton

has won New Jersey.

McCain

has won New Jersey.

Obama has taken Delaware.

Clinton

has won New York, not surprisingly.

Clinton

is said to win Massachusetts.

So did Mitt.

Clinton,

not surprisingly, has won Arkansas.

Huckabee won the state for the GOP.

CNN

has projected Hillary has won Missouri.

Edit: They've pulled that projection.

Clinton

has won Tennessee.