Category: The Dish

From the exits in Virginia:

Nearly seven in 10 voters in Virginia’s Republican primary called themselves conservatives. Mike Huckabee won half of their votes, including two-thirds of those who called themselves "very conservative." Four in 10 Virginia Republican voters were born-again evangelical Christians, and they strongly supported Huckabee over John McCain. Huckabee won the votes of two-thirds of those who said they were looking for a candidate who shared their values. McCain won the votes of two-thirds of moderates and almost half of those who called themselves "somewhat conservative."

CNN calls it, as the polls close. Their exits must be decisive.

Hard to know whether they’re accurate, but some suggest that Obama has won women voters in Virginia 58 – 42. It’s tied among whites; and overwhelmingly for Obama among blacks and younger voters. Among critical independents – the voters who may be tempted to vote for McCain in the fall – Obama is beating Clinton 2 to 1. If the landslide numbers that Drudge is reporting pan out, the Clinton campaign will enter what can only be called crisis mode. How do you lose eight primaries in a row and still claim you can be the nominee? More exit-poll crack here.

He needs to watch his temper. Whatever you believe about Iraq, the notion that only one position is consonant with knowing something about the war and the military is offensive. And dumb.

Conservative think-tankers for Obama – Ambers has an email.

Dan Drezner tries to make sense of her arguments on caucuses and super-delegates.

Steve Sailer makes the point:

Nobody ever, never, ever thinks about this, but how is affirmative action going to work when the beneficiaries outnumber the benefactors? It’s exactly like the social security problems down the road as the retiree to worker ratio rises, but we’ve all seen millions of words about that and practically nothing about the analogous affirmative action problem.

Rod’s two cents here.

His derisive dismissal – out of hand dismissal – of worries about a long-term occupation of Iraq does not seem to me to be a persuasive strategy.

Julian Bond wants Michigan and Florida’s delegates counted – with no new primary or caucus.

Bainbridge finds a reason not to sit out the 2008 election.