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Post by nhcitizen18 on Feb 7, 2008 20:39:09 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/07/romney.campaign/index.htmlThe democrats saw Romney as the weakest of the three remaining contenders. Conservative republicans claim they'll stay home before they vote for McCain. Question is, will conservatives really stay home and allow Hillary the Presidency? Interesting choices ahead.
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Post by frankcor on Feb 7, 2008 20:54:50 GMT -5
McCain just has to convince conservatives that they shouldn't think about it as a vote for him, but rather as a vote against Hillary or Obama.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones we have tried. -- Sir Winston Churchill
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 7, 2008 21:26:42 GMT -5
I like the Churchill quote.
As for Romney, I expected his withdrawal after his lackluster performance on Super Tuesday.
Last time I checked, Obama led hrc in the delegate count, that's what's important. The key is for him to maintain that lead and try to extend it.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 7, 2008 22:10:58 GMT -5
Anyone understand why there's such a huge difference between MSNBC's numbers and CNN's? |
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Post by frankcor on Feb 8, 2008 2:31:03 GMT -5
I'm gonna guess that CNN is calling races that MSNBC thinks are too close to call.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 8, 2008 7:28:40 GMT -5
Where are they getting such different numbers? This all goes back to the decline of quality media. My theory is that CNN's favorite is hrc. If you watched their reporting of super tuesday, they categorically endorsed racism.
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Post by frankcor on Feb 8, 2008 7:57:55 GMT -5
You'll note that MSNBC reports a total of 1716 delegates while CNN has 2001. To me that means that CNN has forecast results for more districts that have yet to complete their vote counting than MSNBC who must believe that some of those races are too close to forecast an outcome.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 8, 2008 8:06:05 GMT -5
perhaps they're also including any delegates that Edwards won before he dropped out too, in hrc's favor along with the superdelegates?
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Post by frankcor on Feb 8, 2008 8:21:36 GMT -5
Okay, I finally figured it out. I was wrong. When you said Edwards, I remembered CNN's numbers include 26 delegates for Edwards. Sure enough, MSNBC's numbers don't include any delegates for Iowa or New Hampshire. They're counting only Super Tuesday results while CNN has the total to date, I suspect.
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