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Caucus, primary results for Kansas, Lousiana, Nebraska, Washington State, Virgin Is.
I’ve just double-checked each of these sources and you can find the exact tallies at all of the links.
Here’s the Kansas GOP Caucus homepage and here’s CNN’s results page.
Louisiana (both parties today; here on CNN too)
Try here or here for Nebraska (Dems only today) (or here on CNN).
The Washington State Democratic Party sends visitors to CNN’s election page for results (Dems only today), here.
The short version: Mike Huckabee wins Kansas (nooooo surprise there if you’ve followed that state’s support for teaching creationism and other socially conservative positions), Barack Obama wins all three primaries.
Update: Looks like Huckabee may win Louisiana and Washington, and Barack Obama has won the Virgin Islands.
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One thing that has struck me as VERY odd is the Washington Republican results. The tabulation has been stuck on 87% of the precincts reporting for more than 12 hours with McCain ahead by a couple hundred votes. Do you think that the Republican party is hiding the remaining votes so that their man, McCain is the winner take all?
It was close, but McCain won. Huckabee was second, Paul third. Romney got around 17% (fourth) even though he wasn't in the race any longer.
The big story is Obama, who won in the sixties per cent in all three states and got 90 per cent in the Virgin Islands. He beat Clinton by more than two-to-one in WA.
The super-delegate situation there to date is inverted, though. Six have endorsed Clinton while three have endorsed Obama. Eight remain uncommitted to date.
People familiar with Washington state will recognize the names of the supers.
Endorsing Clinton (6): Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray (Senate), Norm Dicks and Inslee (House), King County Executive Ron Sims, Tom Foley (former Speaker)
Endorsing Obama (3): Gov. Chris Gregoire, Adam Smith (House), Pat Notter, DNC
Uncommitted (8) include “Baghdad” Jim McDermott, Brian Baird, Rick Larsen.
DLS – You missed my point. The Washington Republican Party declared McCain the winner but has refused to release the complete voting. Sounds suspicious to me and it certainly does to Huckabee supporters.
I stepped past your point because I consider the results a done deal by now. Yes, of course it was suspicious, but not surprising to me, for the Dems have engaged in electoral “strangeness” all over the USA and that includes King County (Seattle metro). Huckabee's strong standing in the state doesn't surprise me; as is true in other blue states, the entire state is not solid blue. Eastern WA (the same is true for eastern OR) is quite conservative (it is authentic, arid, red-hued West) and even on the west sides (both states) of the Cascade Crest, the wet sides, outside the cities it's quite conservative. The battle zone is, as is true elsewhere in the USA, the suburbs. Central cities are heavily Democratic and Puget Sound overall (which dominates the state population-wise, and politically) is a liberal, Democratic place.
Jdledell: Huck certainly got your point. Campaign lawyers are on their way to Washington to ask why the election was called for McCain before the voting was supposed to end while less than 200 votes separated the two candidates.