I don't these results are what most expected; I didn't. Obama just destroyed Hillary in Louisiana, Nebraska, and Washington State. Said another way, all over the damn country. On the Republican side, the media narrative has definitely changed from "McCain is the nominee and just has to unify the party" to "Huckabee is winning primaries still? Potentially in the north?"
The details:
Kansas, GOP (100% reporting)
Huckabee - 60%
McCain - 24%
Paul - 11%
Louisiana, DEM (100% reporting)
Clinton - 36%
Obama - 57%
Louisiana, GOP (100% reporting)
Huckabee - 43%
McCain - 42%
Paul - 5%
Nebraska, DEM (99% reporting)
Clinton - 32%
Obama - 68%
Washington State, DEM (96% reporting)
Clinton - 31%
Obama - 68%
Washington State, GOP (87% reporting, too close to call)
Huckabee - 24%
McCain - 26%
Paul - 21%
Romney - 16%
Uncommitted - 13%
Josh Marshall says this say about the Republican WA State results, focusing on how this is not a good development for McCain:
First thing you have to note is that 74% of caucuses showed up to vote against their all-but-certain nominee. Romney's showing a couple days after dropping out of the race is pretty impressive. And uncommitted even put in a respectable number. The truth is that beside Huckabee's feeble candidate, of the remaining three, one has officially dropped out, another has said he's shifting his focus to his congressional campaign and the third isn't even a person.
Indeed.
Update: I forgot to mention this, but it is big news too: Tonight Obama won 103 delegates to Hillary's 58, putting the current total at 1,012 for Obama and 940 for Hillary. Now, that is just democratically elected delegates, not the Superdelegates that Hillary views as mana from heaven right now (see her pandering to them here. shocker.)
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