A win in Conn. by Obama is bigger then a win by Hillary in Mass

[Joe the Revelator]

It will be the first real surprise (other then Obama's margins of victory) of the night.

[jillan]

1. Not if he wins there by 3% - which is what it looks like at this minute.

I call that practically a tie.

[Joe the Revelator]

2. There are no ties in politics, he will have WON in her backyard

[William769]

9. Like Clinton is doing in his backyeard?

[Joe the Revelator]

15. Where would that be?

[William769]

17. MO.

And yes it's me calling it and I stand by it.

[Joe the Revelator]

18. I think you should wait for the votes to be counted

[William769]

20. 53% of them have been counted and she has a 12% lead.

[russian33]

6. CNN has only 2%

126,430 to 120,510

[Aviation Pro]

3. I'm not going to diminish Senator Obama's victory in CT....

...but isn't this the same state that voted to return Gunner Joe Lieberman to the Senate?

[avaistheone1]

12. Yuppers. There are quite a few conservatives in Conn.

[cali]

13. Ever here of Chris Dodd? Did you know that they actually allow

repubs to vote in a general election? Shocking that fact. Did you know that 4 out 5 of their reps are dems? And liberal dems at that? Kind of knocks your inane lieberman comment on its ass.

[Aviation Pro]

23. Let's run the numbers.....

....564,095 for Lieberman
....450,844 for Lamont
....1,992,370 registered voters in CT
....by your count 80% of the reps are Democrats so that should be 80% for Lamont or 1,593,896 votes in toto between a registered breakdown of 33% Democrat/21% Republican/46% Independent. But it didn't happen that way, did it?

Me thinks you doth protest too much.

Source: http://www.sots.ct.gov/RegisterManual/SectionVIII/SOV06ussenate.htm

[blm]

14. Not in the primary. Republicans gave Joe the numbers in the general - and Bill Clinton

who got on Larry King Live right before that election and told Connecticut voters how lucky they were to be in a situation where they couldn't lose no matter who they voted for. Yep - Dems got a real win-win there, didn't they?

[Nutmegger]

25. Repukes voted for LIARman.

We kicked him out and nominated a true progressive.

[floridablue]

4. Must have JoeMentom

[Proud2BAmurkin]

5. .

:rofl:

[book_worm]

7. Nope, Lamontmentom--Ned Lamont won the Dem primary in '06

[Straight Shooter]

10. Obama campaigned for Joe.

Obama knows a true-blue Dem when he sees one. He and Joe can reach out to the Repubs together.

[Straight Shooter]

8. Right. Because everyone knows that Holy Joe is Hillary's mentor.

Please. The results are shaking out pretty much as anticipated, for the most part.

[AJH032]

11. she's winning Mass by a lot more than he's winning Conn

and since it's delegates that matter...

[ShadowLiberal]

16. Unless Hillary's win margin is bigger then expected in Mass I agree

I generally agree with you, the polls never showed that Obama was going to win Massachusetts, he trailed her by at least 10% in almost all of the recent polls.

A win in Connecticut however, where the polls have gotten very close in the last few days, would be meaningful, I would have put Connecticut in the "toss up" list if I was ranking who would win what states before tonight.

[goldcanyonaz]

19. Twice as many delegates in MA though.

[Little Star]

21. Pfffffffft

[sjdnb]

22. Isn't Kennedy from MA? Hey, I don't care who wins, but after all the MA hype and

Kennedy (and company) hoopla of endorsements/appearances, if Hillary wins there, it will be stunning, to say the least.

MA 121 delegates; CT 60 delegates

BTW -The reason I don't care is because neither of whom I consider to be the best candidates (Gore or Edwards) are in the race. And, with all the $$s they're beholden to - it matters little to me whether it is Clinton or Obama. It's likely no real change will occur with either.

[elizm]

24. Connecticut is the first big upset of the night...

It was supposed to be Hillary's. That, in itself, is a very big deal. Hope it is a sign of things to come.