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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
News Good Morning, News!
Posted by on Wed, Mar 12 at 9:10 AM
• New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has resigned after being caught with his hand in a high-priced prostitute cookie jar! (The upside? New York now has their first black governor. Cool.)
• In last night’s Mississippi primary, Obama picked up five more delegates than Hillary, but the race is still obscenely close with a score of 1,598 to 1,487.
• The head of that Southern California slaughterhouse defended himself today saying that those cows weren’t being pushed by a forklift—they begged for a ride! Lazy cows.
• The US has denied U.N. torture investigators access to American run Iraq prisons—and then they twisted their arms behind their backs until they cried “uncle.”
• The poster boy for assisted suicide, Dr. Kevorkian, is running for Congress in Michigan. Well, Detroit would be a nicer place if half of the city were dead.
• A woman in Germany was stopped by airline security for trying to sneak the skeleton of her brother on a plane. “Skeletons on a Plane?” INTERN! Get my agent on the line!
Comments
At the risk of taking the morning news blotter way too seriously again, and thereby inciting a shitstorm-dogpile on the journalistic integrity of Mercury news staff, picking on Detroit is like kicking a dying puppy; it has been burning for 40 years, Kwame Kilpatrick has spitzered himself into court for the forseeable future, and half the people in Detroit are dead:
1950 pop: ~ 2 million
currently: ~ 800,000.
[Sniffle]
@1:
Maybe because the super delegates are allowed to switch their pledge to the other candidate anytime and as often as they want up until the convention?
Much as I hate to say it (I'd love to see Obama win), the pundits have a good point about the kinds of states won by Clinton and Obama, respectively. Obama has done extremely well in states that will almost certainly go Republican in the general election, while Clinton has done better in key Democratic states like California and New York.
The electoral college system seems to favor Hillary.
California and New York traditionally go Democratic regardless of who's running, though. Eli Sanders made that point rather effectively with a Stephen Colbert clip (over at the Mercury's evil twin).
Ah yes, and I suppose by that logic, New York is going to go for McCain if Obama is nominated? Thaaaaaat makes sense.
Hillary should throw in the towel and the media should learn math. It's impossible for her to win by the numbers and any sort of super delegate win for her would destroy the party. She would lose the Black vote, the educated vote, the independent vote, the Republican crossover vote, and the youth vote, and those are just the obvious categories.
It's just impossible for her to win without some type of shady shit going down.
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I'm not sure how you can conclude the Democratic race is "obscenely" close. Is is nearly mathematically impossible for Ms. Clinton to regain the lead in either pledged delegates or the popular vote.