Hillary's win margin tonight will be greater than the total number of votes Obama won in SC

[jackson_dem]

Obama won 295,091 votes in South Carolina. Hillary is on pace for a million and is already 283,000 votes ahead of Obama. She will finish something like 350,000 votes ahead of Obama. Votes matter. People matter. You can't ignore what the people of Florida said today.

[JackORoses]

1. how many delegates did she win?

[MagsDem]

10. You really can't face that people prefer her over Obama...

can you? I mean you just can't accept it. And you won't be able to accept it next Tuesday either. I don't know what it is about Obama that makes his supporters just, well, yech. You really are the nastiest bunch of people I have ever seen on the Dem side of politics.

[JackORoses]

30. so how many is that again? 0. Ok, call me when that changes.

[still_one]

37. So what is your point? You want to piss enough people off on DU

so if your candidate is the nominee, in the general election they say screw it I am not voting

Maybe you don't need every vote, this is just a game, their side verses ours

Let's see how much damage we can do to the party, and continue to taunt each other, and then when the general election rolls around, and a repuke is back in the white house, maybe the ones we will have to blame for losing is ourseleves

[RufusTFirefly]

42. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing

You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me

[Bitwit1234]

31. She won't need them. And the overwhelming VICTORY shows

that the millions and millions of people in Florida WANT Hillary Clinton for president. Lot of votes to overcome in the couple of small states the other candidate will probably take.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. Holy crap that's devastating

[DUyellow]

43. Obama got ~2X as many votes as he did in SC. All word games.

[thunder rising]

3. So? It does not count. It was not a contest. Billary is a snake.

[jackson_dem]

9. 1 million votes don't count? They foreshadow Super Tuesday

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. No, Rwers posting in a Democratic forum are snakes.

Enough with the Billary shit. It really is immature. How old are you? 10?

[Zueda]

4. Why can't I? There's still a place called reality.

[Joe the Revelator]

5. It a bigger state

It doesn't make it more important,or the win more meaningful. Maybe if a campaign had taken place here, but it didn't, so it won't

[jackson_dem]

11. Get real man. Florida isn't more important than South Carolina?

South Carolina matters once every four years during the primaries. Florida is the fourth biggest state in the country and the engine of the Southeast.

[Joe the Revelator]

25. The engine of the southeast? Thats a bit of a stretch...

and South Carolina does matter. i thought you whole thing was making all the votes count. Why alienate SC?

[rodeodance]

26. Besides-- hill has the BIG MO now. SC is history.

[libertee]

6. yes, and the press will make it headline news for sure...

so it won't be ignored.

[MadBadger]

7. Whats the percent spread?

[Levgreee]

8. 1 in 12 showed up out of the 18 million Floridians, 1 in 8 in SC of 4.3 million

[krkaufman]

32. I'm curious (but haven't the time to research)

Is Florida the first state where the Republicans had a bigger turnout for their primary?

Also, was Florida the first closed primary (where only registered Democrats could vote)?


(Dems ignore the Independent and Republican acceptance of Obama at their peril.)

[aquart]

12. Yeah, but they're old. They could die any minute.

Then where will those votes be? Obama's going to get all those 17 year olds who will turn 18 before November. And without a draft, he's golden.

See? It's all hopeless and Obama will win. Because youth must.

Or youth will have a tantrum till you give in.

[hiaasenrocks]

13. LOL

Florida population: 18,089,888
S.C. population: 4,255,083

There are almost 14 million more people in Florida. Are you surprised that vote total and/or margin differences are that stark? Good grief. THINK.

[jackson_dem]

15. LOL. Did you think the point was Florida matters a lot more than SC?

[hiaasenrocks]

16. No.

I'm laughing at the fact that you're comparing vote totals and margins of victory between two states that have a difference of fourteen million people.

Please keep the free comedy coming. :hi:

[jackson_dem]

18. Florida's voice matters a lot more than SC's as the population numbers reveal

[hiaasenrocks]

Yeah, because we choose presidents based on popular vote, right?

:rofl:

[jackson_dem]

22. Florida indicates Hillary has popular support. This will be shown again on Feb. 5

What will the Obamite excuse be then? :rofl:

[hiaasenrocks]

24. Oh, I have no idea that there are millions of people who support The Clintons

and their politics of yesterday.

I'm not predicting anything about the final outcome of this race.

Again, I was simply laughing at your comparison of vote totals and margins between two states with a population difference of fourteen million people.

Have a good night! :hi:

[Maven]

36. FL has over 3 times as many electoral votes as SC

in the general.

So yes, winning the state is more important for a GE candidate.

[johnnydrama]

19. hmmm

Florida delegates - 0
American Samoa - 3

[HooptieWagon]

33. Slamdunk!

[WillyT]

21. LOL !!! - THANK YOU !!!

:yourock:

Hello, McFly !!!

:wtf:

[papau]

17. But media is not reporting the over 500,000 votes, 51/31 margin for Hillary

[calteacherguy]

20. She didn't win anything, you need to edit your headline. nt

[rodeodance]

28. sunshine is the cure for SOUR grapes.

[ErnestoG]

47. How many delegates did she win?

[rodeodance]

23. no, can not ignore the real human voters--and Obama tried it by calling it a beaty contest. IT

will haunt him.

[rodeodance]

27. ALL FIRED-UP FOR THE LADY--She has the big MO..now-going in Super Tues.

[ErnestoG]

45. reminds me of JooooooeMENtum!

[krkaufman]

29. And Obama's received hundreds of thousands more votes in Florida ...

... than Hillary's received in all other contested primaries combined. (Hint: This point is as irrelevant as yours.)

Obama won a lopsided, landslide victory in a contested primary. Hillary's won a lesser victory in a name recognition popularity contest. Twice. Kudos for Hillary.

(Note, though, that media is reporting that Obama's won a majority of "recent" votes cast. Hillary's success appears to be based on those who'd voted before the campaigns really took off, underscoring the name recognition/popularity factor.)

[jackson_dem]

39. Yeah so you agree Florida is big and more important than small SC

Yes but those figures are misleading because of Obama running ads. He should have won that group.

[Ediacara]

46. You Obama boosters have got to stop claiming that he has no name recognition

Do you honestly believe that no one in Michigan or Florida knew who Obama and Edwards were? Seriously? Are there 10 m walls surrounding both states? Do they have state news media there that doesn't let people know who Obama and Edwards are?

Get real!

Obama's on the news all the fucking time, his face is on the cover of almost every magazine I see in a news stand. Edwards was the fucking nominee for Vice President four years ago!

"Name recognition popularity contest" my shiny metal ass...

[krkaufman]

48. chuckle. The issue isn't that he is unknown ...

... but that neither he nor Edwards are nearly as well-known as the former First Lady. Compare 16 years in the national spotlight versus 4 for each of Obama and Edwards.

Get real, indeed.

Chalk another on up in Hillary's "do anything" column.

[Barack_America]

34. But the percentage of the "win" will be considerably less.

Florida has a larger population. So what's your point?

[jackson_dem]

38. Florida matters much more than South Carolina ever did and it may foreshow Feb 5

Florida's demographics are very close to the nation's, aside from having some more elderly folks. South Carolina and Iowa, Obama's backyard state, are anomalies. So is New Hampshire.

[CyberPieHole]

35. Obama's loss tonight is the beginning of the end for his campaign...

he has not been able to coalesce the older white females and the Latinos/Hispanics. I hope he is undone on Super Tuesday.

:kick: and recommend

[jackson_dem]

40. I "hope" Obama wins only 3-4 states on Super Tuesday

And quits shortly thereafter leaving a final showdown between Clinton and Edwards.

[BrightKnight]

41. .

[ErnestoG]

44. How many delegates did she win, again?

......crickets.......

[gmudem]

49. Florida also has a much much larger population

And it's state Democrats screwed over the Democratic voters by making their primary meaningless. So far Hillary's biggest victories have been in states nobody was even allowed to campaign in. Kinda says something.