Tuesday, May 13, 2008

A Thing About Landslide Victories

Well it looks like Clinton has won her first landslide victory today in West Virginia. It looks like she will win by a margin of 30-40%. But what about Obama's numerous landslide wins? From CNN's website:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/

Looking at the states that already voted, Obama had a larger margin of victory than what Clinton is projected to win in 7 states. What states? Here are the seven:

From the states that voted on Feb. 5th:

Georgia
O: 67%
C:31%

Minnesota
O: 66%
C: 32%

Colorado
O: 67%
C: 32%

Alaska
O: 75%
C: 25%

Idaho
O: 79%
C: 17%

And the rest of the states that voted after Feb. 5th:

Hawaii
O: 76%
C: 24%

Washington
O: 68%
C: 31%


Now Clinton backers would say that the majority of these states were caucus states and she does not do well in them, but coming from Clinton, "a win is a win". I would like to add that Georgia was a primary, and Obama destroyed her there. It is promising that the state might be competitive during the general election.

Landslides
O: 7
C:1

The media needs to point that out...

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