The Super Super Tuesday Super Thread!!!

I'd love to stay up and see who (on the Dem's side) takes CA, but it's 10:30 here, and I'm exhausted, and I've got to get up early 'morrow.

But either way, I think Obama and Hillary and both still in for the long haul.

w/100% of the vote in for Montana:

Romney 38% Paul 25% McCain 22%

Paul takes 5 delegates in North Dakota...

The margin in Missouri is less than the number of votes cast for John Edwards

Paul seems like a little yorkie, nibbling at your heels with his peacemeal gains.

Obama has taken a lead in Missouri, even though Clinton won over 100 of its 115 counties.

It's all about the cities

McCain wins California.

In the words of that great actor Bender: "We're boned"

Saw this conspiracy theory elsewhere and while it's pretty tinfoil hat territory, it is intriguing...

1. bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee are from the same town and spent a lot of time in positions of power in AK

2. Huckabee was as Dem friendly as you can get in AK and he and Clinton continue to have a good relationship during bill's presidency and Huck time in office

3. they have been relatively close since, for members of opposite parties and, except for the two big social issues, share a lot of the same political positions.

4. Huckabee's continued presence in the race helps make McCain the nominee

5. The left wing press pushes the idea McCain would be the strongest Republican vs. Hillary, even though Hillary and McCain get along well and don't speak ill of each other.

The theory?

BILL CLINTON is the mastermind behind the Huckabee campaign with the intent of seeing the Republicans nominate the WORST potential opponent for Hillary (either McCain or Huckabee) and once the nomination is locked up, the Clinton's can then drop some bomb on the GOP nominee and go on to win.

(mind you, that doesn't allow for the potential of Obama getting the nomination for the Dems)

It's all very wacky of course but it makes a nice "black helicopters" story...

Actually the one I heard and the one that makes sense:

Huckabee and McCain teamed up to take out Romney. Huckabee has to know he doesn't stand a chance of getting the nomination but he can sure as hell spoiler it for the right price like say a VP spot......

Either way it's laughable how McCain can't see the train coming full blast at him. As soon as he wins the nomination the media and his friends in the Democrat party will start nuking him.

I mean the guy is really blind to the liberals and their claws in the Democrat party. He actually thinks he can work with them and have a "nice" campaign. Hell he said he wouldn't run those "mean" ads against Obama if it was the two of them running.

Alternatively, Bill figures it doesn't matter whether Hillary or Huckabee wins; he'd still have plenty of influence in the White House either way.

Obama takes Alaska, no news on the GOP side yet.

California was little surprise, as over half the people voted days or weeks ago. That's why Edwards is getting over 10% of the vote.

As with Florida, if you only count people who cast their vote today, Obama won.

Man. Someone needs to put word/thought bubbles in this and add captions.

Well yeah....it's patently obvious at this point that Huck is whoring for a VP spot.

I'm gonna take not a little comfort in tasting his tears when McCain picks someone else and the would-be-whore finds out he's just a slut after all.

It would be really hard to convince me to vote for McCain, no matter who is the Dem's nominee.

If Huckabee is his VP, that dismally small chance drops to absolute zero, period. Especially since any VP of "President McCain" has too much of a chance of actually becoming President at some point.

I still think I'm going to write in "Ron Paul" and be done with it (unless he is running in a third party after all and I don't have to write him in).

Anecdotes from Alaska: Paul has 50% in Fairbanks, 60% in Anchorage.

Well I like to balance out a conservative legislature with a liberal judiciary, so I welcome anyone to vote for a democrat over McCain.

I'd rather have Clinton or Obama appointing the next 2-4 Supreme Court Justices than McCain, Huckabee, or Romney.

Missouri is being called for... OBAMA! By a margin of 8000 votes.

I make McCain at over 400 delegates tonight so far, with nothing counted regarding California.

Romney picks up at least 200 if Colorado and Minnesota award most of theirs to the winner.

Huckabee has over 120 that are sure things plus he'll get some district by district delegates from three Southern states and Oklahoma.

Things are looking pretty good for McCain delegate wise in California:

http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/rcd/all.htm

CNN's Delegate Estimates:

Clinton 625
Obama 519

McCain 487
Romney 176
Huck 122
Paul 11

Alaska's GOP results are starting to come in, Romney's leading 41% to Huck's 22% with 28% of the vote in.

At the very least I count 14 delegates for Paul: 6 from before, 3 from WV, 5 from ND.

Looks like Alaska can be put in Romney's column:

(w/ 75% of the vote in)

Romney 44%
Huck 22%
Paul 17%
McCain 16%

EDIT: CNN called it for Mitt

How did Paul get any delegates from West Viriginia? He was dropped after the first ballot.

Well Super Tuesday for probably the first time in forever did absolutly nothing to settle the Dem ticket. Obama won twice as many states as Hillary, but Hillary won the big prize. If there wasn't any early voting in California she might have lost there too. The next lineup of primaries heavily favor Obama. This race is going on and on and on. The Republican side is pretty much over. That's going to be a fascinating convention. McCain is probably going to go in with around 1300 delegates, on the strength of around 45% of the party's vote if that.

A fun headline on the primaries at ..."Dems still in Dogfight"

Paul supporters put McCain/Huck over the top. More here.

I knew the polls would be wrong in Missouri, all of which had Clinton ahead by 5-6 points.

400 people determined the delegate breakout in Alaska for the Dems...