What Obama has done is so remarkable though I’m not sure if the media doesn’t pay attention to it because they are racist so much as they think us in the fly-over states are rubes who don’t count for anything so us demanding Obama as the nominee doesn’t count as much as those in California or Massachusetts choosing Clinton. But I got to tell you as someone who has lived her whole life in middle America what Obama did is pretty amazing.

While my father never used the n-word the way his father (my grandpa) had, ten years ago my father was still so bad about race he wanted me to promise I would never bring home a black boyfriend (some of my female friends were going with black guys from the bigger town about a half hour away) and this was before I was even dating ANYONE and I was so enraged by that I hated him for years until our relations thawed somewhat when I went to college and we finally started talking about things and understanding each other. Well guess what? Out of the blue a couple months ago my dad, who not surprisingly was a Republican, was talking to me about politics and he informed me that he was thinking about voting for Obama because we just need “total change.” He asked me for information about him (although along the way I had to disabuse him of more racist constructs when he would tell me how Obama is not an “Al Sharpton type” and I’d explain how unfair that is to distinguish Obama that way rather than just judge him as his own person but by the end I think he got it) and I even got my mom to switch over from Hillary to vote for Barack too. Barack Obama got my dad to cast his first Democratic vote for president ever so I got to vote the same as my dad for the first time ever! And this is not because he just wants to vote against Hillary. He wants Obama to be president over John McCain or anyone the Republicans would run. Barack Obama is changing this country and no matter what happens win or lose this country will be better for Barack Obama’s candidacy.

Keep up the good work on this blog.

Will Obama take the VP slot? Will you vote for the unifying “dream ticket” of Hillary/Obama?

I’m afraid this will be the real scenario. We’ll be thrown a bone and told to go sit in the corner and chew on it for eight more years.

I also think that we will see in Texas, that when he gets to campaign face to face in places like San Antonio and El Paso, he will do surprisingly well with Latinos.

And another demographic nobody is talking about: Native Americans. They were the key to his absolute stomping in Alaska (4-1, overall) and wins in the Southwest and Minnesota.

Maybe these people need to check themselves to determine what they really think the word Progressive really means.

Wow.

What are you smoking?

“Cause it’s a pretty powerful hallucinogen.

He won more states and more delegates (excluding super delegates).

Senator Clinton only exceeded 60%in one state, TN,while Senator Obama exceeded 60% in at least six states. Senator Obama did NOT lose any state that he was expected to win, but he did pick up states, namely CT. In fact, he was still polling behind her in AL up until yesterday.

And I can NOT say it enough times that she didn’t crack 60% in her own state.

I don’t think it’s insignificant that Senator Obama made history yesterday by becoming the first African American to win state-wide in several states, including MO.

Also, he made considerable gains among White men and women, solidified his base, made slight in roads with Latinos, but she only held her base. But yet she has the “edge” according to the media.

This BS is unbelievable!

If he can win those states, then his chances in a national election are tremendous. Clinton hung on to the big party machine states, working class whites who always vote against their interests, and some of these female folks that believe “it’s their ‘turn’.”

That said I want to give a shout out to all the people who voted AGAINST allowing the Clintons to do them greasy.

Especially my people in Georgia and Alabama and my “new” people in Idaho, North Dakota, Alaska, Kansas, Minnesota, and Colorado.

Thanks for not jumping in the Clinton trickbag.

Well said. This was a huge victory for Obama, taking Missouri, overcoming double-digit leads in Delaware and Connecticut, consistently outperforming polls in the South, romping in Alabama, Colorado, and Minnesota — and almost certainly winning the delegate count. Okay, California was a disappointment (especially since one outlier poll had Obama way head), but still.

And yeah, it is up to us. I think it’s possible to intervene here to change the narrative. Late last night I found a post on a well-respected political blog that said “Clinton won all the battleground states”. I replied saying “I don’t understand how you can say this,” and rattled off some of the above facts. Not sure whether it was my post or not, but when I went back to check the page, the author had changed things significantly to “Obama did not win so many of the batteground states. But his was still a remarkable list of victories.”

One thing I would add is that as well as the blogging community we should involve the people on Facebook. There are a couple of huge groups there — 380,000 on the Barack Obama page, 450,000 in the One Million Strong for Barack group — and there are some really committed people.

It’s not easy doing activism on Facebook: I kept getting shut down as a spammer, and heard from several others who the same thing was happening to. Still we’re working out the techniques and communication channels. Unusually, the discussion board is visible even outside the walled garden of Facebook — it’s worth checking out threads like Obama really won tonight.

> I suspect that the Democratic establishment will steal the election from Obama by shifting Super Delegates to Clinton, no matter what happens in the Primaries.

It will be up to us to keep this from happening. I think we have a chance.

This is a good sign for the upcoming November elections. I was a skeptic regarding Obama because I liked John Edwards message regarding the disenfranchisement of poor people and the left out, but the only way I would ever vote for Hillary Clinton is if she is THE candidate.

But the results are encouraging and has even my two grown sons talking about this election, something that has never happened before!

1/3 of votes had already been cast in CA prior to Tuesday, which favored Senator Clinton.

Senator Obama one among all demographics except Latinos and Asians but including Jews on Tuesday only voting at precincts.

Senator Clinton did NOT break 60% in her home state.

She won ONLY states she was SUPPOSED to win and by less than the margin she was polling.

But of course none of that matters to the media who will not give Senator Obama credit for anything!

I’ve got the poll numbers from abot a week ago. The man was down in every state but Illinois and New York.

A week ago Clinton’s camp said they thought they would have this in the bag tonight. The nom would be sown up.

Super Tuesday the Obama camp was saying they would declare tonight a victory if they got within 60 – 100 delegates of Clinton.

How is this a win for Clinton? How is this NOT a huge victory for Barack Obama?

Oh and you should see the venom being spewed on many of the “progressive” blogs.

They can’t stand it.

I’m pissed.

Let’s contribute heavily to Obama’s campaign now, contribute donations, contribute our volunteering.

As someone said, the Clintons basically consider us Black people to be cockroaches fit to be ignored. Well, in fact, we’re very hungry cockroaches, and we’ll be devouring and feasting on the nice, pink flesh of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Now is the time to destroy them, and to hit them very hard!

1. Ted Kennedy’s endorsement did nothing b/c Obama lost Massachusetts. Bullshit– he was 30 points behind before, he brought it close to 10% and won lots of delegates. Same in California– early voters there broke for Clinton, but the Kennedy endorsement helped Obama. Kennedy did help Obama win in Connecticut.

2. Hillary won because she stopped Obama’s momentum. BULLSHIT. Hillary was supposed to win this day by double digits– that’s where the polls had her before. Especially with all her name recognition and institutional support, that’s where she was pegged. Instead, Obama won a big majority of states and, it looks now, more delegates than Hillary too.

3. I love how, when the media tabulates up delegates, they use this bullshit of counting the UNELECTED superdelegates for Clinton (and how are free to make a choice in any direction), rather than considering the pledged delegates that have actually been clearly won or lost. Among pledged delegates, Obama has won far more than Hillary has.

4. Obama “can’t win Latinos.” Again– bullshit. Part of the reason for the “Latino gap” is Hillary’s big Latino advantage in her two “home states” of New York and New Jersey, not to mention in Arkansas! But in the Southwest, Obama got a big share, perhaps up to 40% or more, of the Latinos in California who voted on Feb. 5th.

Many people in Cali voted via early ballots, and this was before Obama got the Ted Kennedy endorsement and the one from La Opinion, the big Spanish-language newspaper. Obama also got big support from Latinos in Arizona among other places. And Obama won Colorado with Latino support.

5. The foreign press is terrible. The assholes who write the British papers at least for a while, were declaring Hillary the out-and-out winner (apparently copying a dipshit headline from Yahoo). My friend in Manchester says this has changed recently, but it just shows how much the media in White countries like this hate Black people and hate Obama.

I’ll say it again, because now it’s clearly in evidence– the mainstream media has been showing an ugly racist streak by taking what was obviously about a draw, and in actual fact a narrow victory (in terms of states and possibly in delegates), for Obama, and trying to declare it a win for Hillary. While failing to mention that Hillary was an almost prohibitive favorite before, and she had her big “home states” of New York, New Jersey, Arkansas and Tennessee helping her out here!

They were even calling Missouri for Clinton– a state that Obama won instead! Who knows what effect this would have had for voters in Western states?

We need to be tough about this, because the media organizations respond ultimately to MONEY. Any news organization that demonstrates such racist coverage and distortion of the news against Obama– Newsweek has been among the worst– we need to BOYCOTT en masse. Cancel your subscriptions, refuse to buy those newspapers or watch their news, write letters and provide other forms of feedback to make it clear that we Black people WILL NOT TOLERATE such obviously racist coverage against Obama and against our people. They will feel a financial pinch, and the reporters who write or discuss in such racist terms will be out of work looking for a job as a result!