This girl wasn't old enough to vote, but Obama didn't need her in her home state of Minnesota.
For a totally incomplete, unscientific, offensive, and unprofessional rundown of the extraordinarily surprising night we barely remember (it was Mardi Gras, after all, and there plenty of free drink tickets lying about), here's a list of things we thought of thanks to the lucidity of five Hurricane cocktails:
1. Mike Huckabee won more states than he had any right to.
2. Mitt Romney may drop out-- or at least drop back and hope to escape this whole cycle unscathed, ready to be the 2012 GOP nominee.
3. John McCain is now 99% likely to win the nomination. Earlier in the day, he was about 98.7%.
4. Barack Obama won way more states than Jesse Jackson ever did. So take that, Billary. He even won Connecticut (blue state), Colorado (becoming a blue state), and-- hell, let's throw in North Dakota just for fun. It's interesting to note that Hillary won many of the so-called blue states and Obama many of the red. Except, yeah, those mentioned above, plus California, which would mean something... if we gave a rat's ass enough to figure it out.
5. Clinton won a huge (in more ways than one) victory in California. If Obama had not picked up toss up states and Clinton-strong states, he would have had a rougher road ahead.
6. Claire McCaskill, supporting her fellow freshman Senator, believes that the next two week's of primaries (no, it's not over yet, people) mainly favor Obama, and she's probably right.
7. Clinton will be leading in delegates when all is said and done. But following the next stream of primaries, it should all be tied up again.
8. At this point, the Democratic race is a 50-50 toss up. Either Obama or Clinton could win.
9. The media will present this mainly as "Clinton fought her way to victory" while (buried in paragraph 18) "Obama won more states, in broader areas of the country (Alaska, Connecticut, etc.), and, in many more ways, was the come-from-behind victor."
10. Thanks to these distortions by the media, the campaign continues on.
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