Powered by Max Banner Ads
Reunion: Obamas, Ayres, and Farrakhan Vote At Same Location
It looks like Barry nearly had an election day reunion with some old friends — like Bill Ayres and Louis Farrakhan.
Ohio’s Vote From Home Fraudsters Finally Fess Up
The ‘Vote From Home‘ fraudsters in Ohio who illegally cast ballots even though they didn’t actually live in Ohio finally admitted their ‘mistake.’
Florida Primary Results (Updated)
REPUBLICAN (58% reporting)(100% reporting)
MCCAIN: 35% 36% –>Winner! [declared]
ROMNEY: 31%
GIULIANI: 15%
DEMOCRATS (58% reporting)(100% reporting)
CLINTON: 51% 50% –>Winner! [declared]
OBAMA: 31% 33%
EDWARDS: 15% 14%
Voter Turnout In Florida May Set Record
From the Miami Herald:
Nearly one million Floridians have already cast early and absentee ballots in the state’s primary, a sign that moving up the date of the presidential primary will likely yield a record turnout on Tuesday.
The last time there was a contested presidential primary on both the Republican and Democratic sides, only about 19 percent of Florida voters, or 1.34 million, cast ballots. But numbers assembled by the political parties show that more than 988,000 people had voted by Sunday.
And thousands more voted Sunday afternoon in the seven Florida counties, including Miami-Dade and Broward, that were still conducting early voting. Lines at some early voting sites in South Florida snaked around buildings and stretched out onto sidewalks.
It’s also worth noting that this will be the last time voters in Florida will use touch screen voting machines. With the exception of disabled voters, all future voting will be done via paper ballot.
-Chris Jones
Michigan Primary Results (Updated)
Here are the results for the Michigan Primary so far… (UPDATED WITH FINAL RESULTS)
Republicans
Results (10% reporting) (100% reporting) (Declared)
ROMNEY: 36% 37% 39% –> Winner!
MCCAIN: 31% 30%
HUCKABEE: 17% 16%
PAUL: 6% 7% 6%
THOMPSON: 4%
GIULIANI: 3%
Democrats
Results (10% reporting) (100% reporting) (Declared)
CLINTON: 61% 55% –> Winner!
UNCOMMITTED: 34% 40%
-Hot Joints Staff
Voting Almost Over In Michigan Primary
According to Fox News the turnout in tonight’s Michigan primary is fairly low thus far.
Romney and John McCain are neck-and-neck in polling in the Great Lake State, where only the race for the state’s 30 GOP delegates seems to matter.
Democratic delegates are not being seated at the national convention and most Democratic candidates withdrew from the race, leaving Hillary Clinton, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich the only active contenders on that ballot.
Voting will be ending in Michigan very shortly, and we will post the final results.
CLINTON PULLS UPSET, WINS NEW HAMPSHIRE
The 2008 New Hampshire Primary shows just how little the pundits actually know. It’s been all Obama all the time ever since Iowa. However, Hillary Clinton staged a comeback tonight and buried Obama.
From the AP:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won New Hampshire’s Democratic primary Tuesday night in a startling upset, defeating Sen. Barack Obama and resurrecting her bid for the White House. Sen. John McCain powered past his Republican rivals and back into contention for the GOP nomination.
Clinton’s victory capped a comeback from last week’s third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and raised the possibility of a long battle for the party nomination between the most viable black candidate in history and the former first lady, seeking to become the first woman to occupy the Oval Office.
-Chris Jones
New Hampshire Primary Results
With 63% of precincts reporting:
REPUBLICANS (Declared)
John McCain: 37% –> Winner!
Mitt Romney: 31%
DEMOCRATS (Declared)
Hillary Clinton: 39% –> Winner!
Barack Obama: 36%
-Hot Joints Staff
Obama And McCain Get Early Win In First Balloting
Sen. Barack Obama won seven of the 10 votes cast for Democrats in the first balloting of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday in the northern hamlet of Dixville Notch, while Sen. John McCain won the Republican balloting.
Ballots by all 17 registered voters were cast and counted just after midnight on Tuesday in the remote White Mountains town that takes advantage of a state law allowing communities to close polls once voting is over and announce the results.
-Samantha Giles
Chavez Loses Vote 51-49
President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.
Chavez told reporters at the presidential palace that the outcome of Sunday’s balloting had taught him that “Venezuelan democracy is maturing.” His respect for the verdict, he asserted, proves he is a true democratic leader.
“I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense,” he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent.
The defeated reform package would have created new types of communal property, let Chavez handpick local leaders under a redrawn political map and suspended civil liberties during extended states of emergency. Without the overhaul, Chavez will be barred from running again in 2012.
“This reform was about democracy or totalitarian socialism, and democracy won,” said opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez said.
Chavez Vote To Close To Call
From VOA News:
Hours after polls closed in Venezuela’s constitutional referendum Sunday, both the government and its opponents say the vote is too close to call.
No official results have been released on the fate of the constitutional changes sought by President Hugo Chavez.
Late Sunday, Vice President Jorge Rodriguez said election workers were still counting ballots five hours after voting was to have ended.
No Mas Chavez?
President Hugo Chavez would take on expanded powers and have a shot at being president for life under constitutional changes being considered by Venezuelans Sunday in a vote that raised tensions in South America’s top oil exporter.
Chavez maintains that in order to turn Venezuela into a socialist state he needs indefinite rule. One can only hope that Venezuelans will take a look at Cuba before they decide that’s the really the direction they want to go.
The reforms would also grant Chavez control over the Central Bank, allow his government to detain citizens without charge during a state of emergency, and empower him to redraw the country’s political map and handpick provincial and municipal leaders.
However, I have a feeling that Chavez is going to rule Venezuela for as long as he wants to regardless of the outcome of today’s vote. Whether or not the outcome of the vote will be fair or honest is debatable, but one thing seems to be clear.
No matter how many times socialism proves to be a disaster, countries in Latin America always get suckered into another socialist revolution by another charismatic dictator.
Chavez has warned opponents he will not tolerate attempts to stir up violence, and threatened to cut off oil exports to the U.S. if Washington interferes. His country is a major supplier to the United States, which in turn is the No. 1 buyer of Venezuelan oil.
Considering that the only thing keeping Chavez in power is the money from oil exports, it’s laughable to think he would refuse to sell to his biggest buyer.
Pollster Luis Vicente Leon said tracking polls by his firm Datanalisis in the past week show the vote is too close to predict. Which side wins will depend largely on turnout among Chavez’s supporters and opponents.
About 100 electoral observers from 39 countries in Latin America, Europe and the United States were are on hand, plus hundreds of Venezuelan observers.
-Chris Jones
Posts
