Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Big Win For Clinton, Bigger Win For Mississippi Democrats

As predicted, West Virginia was a big win for Clinton in the Democratic primary. She won 67/23%, one of her biggest margins ever. To be fair, the demographics of West Virginia were particularly unfavorable for Obama (as are Kentucky's which votes next week). Clinton maintained a big lead, and Obama did not campaign a significant amount there to combat it, focusing instead on the more populous (and more demographically favorable) Oregon.

Oh, and apparently it's only 28 pledged delegates, the other 11 from WV are supers I guess. I don't know why cnn shows different totals on different pages, but it's annoying. Anyhoo, looks like a pick up of about 10 delegates (not counting the supers) which is nice for her but not really close to closing the gap.

Meanwhile, Swing State Project is reporting that Travis Childers beat Greg Davis for MS-01 house seat. Yet another special election for an open house seat in a very Republican district is taken by Democrats, by a whopping 8%. This is less symbolic than taking of Denny Hasterts seat, but it's in an even more heavily Republican district.

Thanks to the energy and enthusiasm that this primary is generating, Democratic voter registration and voter turn out is up across the board and Democrats have won every open house seat in the last year. Congressional Republicans are scared, and for good reason.

UPDATE: MS-01 went for Bush by 62% in 2004 according to Oliver Willis.

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