I'm thrilled with Obama's wins tonight but am truly bummed about California.

[helderheid]

[Coexist]

1. don't be bummed -

I am waiting to see if he breaks the 40%.

[HopeforChange]

2. How can they call it so soon? only 15% reporting?

[ursi]

3. yeah, what was that all about? old women and Hispanics again like NH? hmmmm.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. CA was already sewn for HRC

[Piperay]

27. Early voting did it. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

37. wonder how many changed their minds after

[bicentennial_baby]

5. He'll get a bunch of delegates...

It won't be counted fully till tomorrow :)

[EFerrari]

6. John hurt him in CA. It is what it is. n/t

[gateley]

12. That's assuming that those votes would have gone to O. Who knows?

[EFerrari]

28. I think most of them would have.

On the other hand, I'd rather have the chance to vote for John that either Clinton or Obama myself.

[nadinbrzezinski]

38. I voted for John this morning

why am I reminded of Florida, if Nader had not run....

I did not like either and would not hold my nose... though you can bet I will hold my nose in November

[gateley]

40. Yeah, you're probably right. nt

[Honeycombe8]

57. Who's John? nt

[oviedodem]

7. Don't be bummed, 1mil early before the country really saw obama

[gateley]

8. Although Hillary no doubt will take it, the lead will narrow as the votes

are counted. O could get a good chunk of the delegates by the time he's finished.

[EFerrari]

13. I think that's right. L.A. County always comes in late.

I don't really believe this Clinton gets the Latinos deal. We don't share a hive mind.

[gateley]

42. I hate to break it to you, but according to the pundits, you DO!

:hi:

[EFerrari]

48. Remember they said we voted for Bush in 2004 and that turned out

to be bs.

lol

:hi:

[gateley]

52. Yeah, and they STILL don't get it!!

:toast:

[still_one]

9. I am from California and I am very bummed out

People have the wrong impression that California is so liberal. California is a very mixed state.

[CyberPieHole]

10. I'm not. California says EFF OFF Obama Ophra and your circus act...

:applause:

[still_one]

19. This Californian didn't. If Hillary wins the nomination, and bill clinton becomes

the subject of the campaign, I would like to know what the Clinton campaign plans to do so that won't happen

[KitchenWitch]

21. It is spelled OPRAH not OPHRA

[still_one]

22. This Californian didn't. If Hillary wins the nomination, and bill clinton becomes

the subject of the campaign, I would like to know what the Clinton campaign plans to do so that won't happen

[tabasco]

26. You have the class of Dick Cheney without the intelligence.

Why don't you take your own advice?

[EFerrari]

31. Welcome to the list!

[Danger Mouse]

33. Wow. You're a class act.

:puke:

[Piperay]

35. Cyber***Hole has been showing his "class"

all night long. x( As soon as we get back our ignore function he has a place on mine.

[Danger Mouse]

43. He's earned a place on mine as well...

it's been a long time coming.

[krkaufman]

55. It'd be nice if DU had some feature that scanned everyone's ignore lists ...

... to identify the perpetual irritants, and hand-out some short-term suspensions.

[Cha]

56. I cannot wait for the ignore

function to go back on.

[Piperay]

34. Enjoy it while you can

come November MacCain will beat the pantsuit off Hillary and wipe the floor with her.

[Jed Dilligan]

45. The fat lady (85% of precincts) has not sung.

[Pirate Smile]

11. Let them finish counting the votes and figure out the delegates.

Enjoy Missouri coming back to the Obama side (probably - maybe - I think ;)).

[John Q. Citizen]

14. It may well end up much closer. Look at Missouri. and delegate wise and the next

states in the cycle could end up very good for Obama

[writes3000]

15. Obama did AMAZING tonight! Really, truly amazing!

Think back to just ONE week ago.

Obama won more states than anyone ever predicted.

Obama did better in almost all categories.

Obama won, actually won, states Hillary was supposed to win.

Did Hillary win any states that Obama was expected to win one week ago.

The momentum is behind him. The money is behind him. And quite frankly, I'd rather be where Obama is right now than where Clinton is.

[truebrit71]

16. Don't be...we don't know what the final delegate count is yet...

...

[featherman]

17. Each won two toss ups: CT & MO for Obama, CA & MA for Clinton

Not too bad. Hope the MO result holds up. CA was always a tough slog due to the Clinton hammerlock on the state party machinery, Hispanic vote, and early voting.

Good night for Obama: 13 state to 9

Maybe win the complicated delegate selection

Good night for Clinton: won the only two states the media really care about = NY and CA

[loveangelc]

18. Don't be! She was inevitable to win that state up until a few days ago.

[blm]

20. Don't be. He was never expected to win it. And today WAS Hillary's highpoint. She has nothing

else coming up as Obama is strong in the next 6 states. SHE needed to rack up HUGE numbers today but she didn't. She should have won four or five more states that she really needed today.

Obama has way more in the bank, too. It's all good up ahead.

[sandnsea]

23. We have a bunch of wins coming up this month

Stupid Californians. I knew I left that state for a reason! :rofl:

[still_one]

36. I am a Californian, love the state, but agree with you on the stupidy of many Californians

If Hillary gets the nomination, they will be fighting the slurs from the ninties, instead of todays issues, and that may be enough of a distraction to doom us in 2008

I really hope not

[sandnsea]

44. Oh I love it too

I was kidding.

But I don't know what her voters are thinking about. Why would you intentionally inflict all that garbage on the country. I don't understand it at all.

[still_one]

46. The biggest theme in this election is change, and I just don't see Hillary

or mccain being that

Edward's delegates are definitely going to become more significant

[NMMNG]

47. California is chock full of stupid people

We passed lots of them holding Obama signs while we were driving through SF last night.

[sandnsea]

50. Ahnold, Giuliani, Romney, Reagan, Bloomberg

I am sorry but all the supposed blue states that went for Hillary don't have that great of an electoral record.

[NMMNG]

54. But if CA had voted for Obama

We wouldn't be hearing about "stupid Californians", would we?

[sandnsea]

59. Sure we would, from YOU!!

:rofl:

:hi:

[NMMNG]

61. I wouldn't be posting about it

Though I might be thinking it.

[ZinZen]

60. As a Californian, I agree with you

California thinks it is the big Mo as far as trends go. Well my state has just gone retro 90's.

[BlackmanX]

24. If he had another week it would've been closer in CA.

The momentum is on his side and just the fact that he won in so many rural states proves that he has more drawing power than her. Odds are he won MO too so it's not a loss by any stretch.

[Tatiana]

62. This is a good point. He did make a good push until the last couple of weeks.

And even then, at the rally in L.A., Oprah, Michelle, Caroline, and Maria had to do the heavy lifting. I think they only recently decided that they had a shot at California. If they'd had an earlier ground game, the results would be a lot closer.

[Emit]

25. Remember though, helderheid, it's not

winner-take-all

[Lone_Star_Dem]

29. Don't be bummed, helderheid.

This has been a great night. A beautiful night. A historic night. Let yourself bask in the glory of that and remember that Clinton was/is expected to take California. If in the end things go a different route all the better for making tonight historic. :)

I guess that's easy for me to say though. I'm looking at this as from the outside in a detached way tonight.

[City Lights]

30. I never thought he'd pull out a win in CA, but I do hope the gap narrows

as the totals come in.

[Stardust]

49. Consider that 43% of Californians vote absentee and they are most likely

Progressives who are mistrustful of the voting process, I won't be surprised if most of those votes yet to be counted are for Obama.

[bigtree]

32. I would have been extremely bummed if Hillary had lost Cali, so I know . . .

:hug:

[rosetta627]

39. So many Californians voted far in advance

It's a weird system.

They'll go for Obama in the general election. Big time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. Gap is narrowing

and he will get delegates, not that he is, in any way, shape or form my favorite, and neither is HRC

[stillcool]

51. there is not telling...

how those votes are going to shake out...If he wins 40%..he is in really good shape, but John Edwards picked up quite a few votes...
so far...
Live Election Results
President - Dem Primary
California - 4535 of 23109 Precincts Reporting - 20%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Clinton , Hillary Dem 680,594 54%
Obama , Barack Dem 418,611 33%
Edwards , John Dem 122,328 10%
Kucinich , Dennis Dem 10,531 1%
Richardson , Bill Dem 8,344 1%
Biden , Joe Dem 6,748 1%
Gravel , Mike Dem 2,426 0%
Dodd , Chris Dem 2,242 0%

http://www.shelbystar.com/sections/election-news/live-results/

[trashcanistanista]

53. Too early to call. They are reporting absentee.

I worked a precinct in Placer County, the reddest part of California. Obama beat Clinton 74 to 49 Romney beat McCain by 52 to 47. This does not include provisional or absentee returns. This is a historically red district, over 2-1 Republican. Today we had a fifty fifty Dem/Rethug turnout which is stunning. A small precinct, but as of now, they haven't tallied our county. I just got home. I am calling California for Obama based on these earthshaking results.

[margotb822]

58. I know

I was just with a friend who is an Obama supporter. She was really down because of the disparity between the polls and the results. I told her that she couldn't be bummed, my candidate got votes and he isn't even in the election.

I saw Obama speak and I truly concentrated for the first time. I know he will be a good leader. I don't know about his positions on the issues...I think he is not progressive enough. But, the legislation shall be left to Congress, and I know that if we have a Dem in the WH and a majority in Congress, we will be able to put this country on a correcting course. Tonight it the first time I have felt confident in both of the remaining candidates.

GO DEMS in '08!