Today! McCain, Obama, Clinton final political news-election results via Ticket Twitter

You know, today is the last day of primaries. (Yes, we know AP says Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination by delegates, but there are still real votes to be voted.)

Just like spring, election day comes kinda late to Montana and South Dakota. And they really are the final ones. No, really.

And then almost immediately -- well, five months from tomorrow -- comes the general election on Nov. 4. So you better hurry and sign up for instant results via Ticket Twitter for tonight and beyond.

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Look how excited someone's new grandson named Charlie is about the prospect of automatically getting election results Twittered to his Fisher play cellphone.

And he could have received news of Hillary Clinton's walloping of Barack Obama in Kentucky a whole lot quicker had he been a Ticket Twitter subscriber -- and born then. But he was otherwise occupied elsewhere. (Yes, that's his personal halo hanging nearby.)

Also, Charlie doesn't want to miss one moment of Rep. Ron Paul's surge now that he's within almost 1,300 delegates of catching Sen. John McCain for the Republican nomination in St. Paul. (Honest, that's where the GOP meets come September.)

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Once again, on this final primary election day and all the ordinary campaign days in between until the Bitter End when everyone has made their Thanksgiving airline reservations and winced at the new prices, we're going to have all the political news and election result updates for our Twitter subscribers. (Actually, to be honest, we'll be here well beyond Nov. 4 chronicling formation of a new presidential administration and the political fallout in the losing party.)

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Comments

[N.E. BodybutHillary]

Hillary Rodham Clinton has just vowed to obliterate Iran. Do you want to vote for yet another war?

[FutureTeller]

Future News:

America continues to vote for the same old politics, and gets same old results. Voters blame the government. Economy continues to decline. Jobs reduce pay or move elsewhere. Health care becomes out of the financial reach of more and more americans. Educational options are reduced for the working class.

[William Joseph Miller]

Hillary Clinton deserves a political prize. She has promised a gas tax holiday so that Mom, Pop, and the kids can pile into the SUV and go to the NASCAR races.

Barack Obama, delivering a little straight talk that would put John McCain to shame, comes out looking like Mean Ole Dadday who won't let the kids watch TV until they do their homework and eat their vegetables. HIllary, like some spoild brat baby boomer, stages a temper tantrum, and calls Mean Ole Daddy a nasty name "elitist" egged on by irresponsible Odler Brother, AKA John McCain.

And there's more. Just like spoiled children invent an imaginary Boogeyman whom they can blame for all their misbehavior, so Hillary and Johnnie have invented a real Boogeyman - AKA REv. Wright.

Who's acting like an adult? This contest really reveals the intelligence of the voters of Indiana and North Carolina, and since I don't what to sound like some sort of conceited elitist - I'll break it down to language the comman man can understand. The voters in Indiana and North Carolina are getting pimped. And that's the straight talk. Deal with it.

Thanks to the latest cover of Newsweek Magazine, we know one importnat fact about Obama. He eats his vegetables.

[Michigan and Florida cannot be disenfranchised]

We Clinton supporters need to contact our Congressmen and US Senators and Howard Dean and insist on Michigan and Florida delegates being seated fairly. No 50/50 split which would cancel Hillary’s legitimate wins.

It is ridiculous for Obama supporters to insist that the "voters" in those states DESERVE to lose their voice because the State Party Organizations broke some rules. When did any of us get to decide when or how we vote in primaries or in the general? Get Real...the voters are always innocent bystanders.

Florida can be counted “as is" since Obama and Clinton were on the ballot and no one was favored.

Michigan needs a revote and since they are going to vote on statewide measures on Aug 5th, there is NO REASON why they can't choose between Clinton and Obama at the same time.

Right now, it is Obama and his supporters who are blocking any Michigan revote or Florida seating for that matter.

WE VOTERS need to write Howard Dean and our state superdelegates and convince them that we WILL NOT STAND for the contest to be stacked in favor of Obama because "his supporters might get upset". Hillary's supporters WILL GET UPSET as well if she doesn't get a fair shake and that includes the votes she got from Michigan and Florida. (The media and Howard Dean act as if Obama, by virtue of being black, has a higher claim than Hillary. Listen and you will hear this outrageous bias everywhere.)

If Obama gets his way, it will be all of us who lose since he will have NO chance in November without the support of Michigander and Floridian voters as well as angry voters such as me. We must promise retribution if Howard Dean and the credentials committee refuse to play fair.

Write congress.org and Howard Dean at [www.democrats.org].

Do this today and pass it on please. Time is running out and the Credentials Committee is meeting at the end of May.

[loki]

how can hillary's so-called wins be legitamate? there was no choice of candidates to vote for. only her name was on the ballot in MI. they both agreed to honor the DNC rules which hillary later ignored by refusing to remove her name form MI ballots campaigning in FL. how are the those result fair? if you support a cheater, you are a looser. have you no shame?

[Diane]

Dear disenfranchised -

Florida has it's own problems, but answer me this - how is Michigan a legitimate win when Hillary's name was the only democrat on the ballot - in violation of the party's rules - and yet 40 percent of Democrats chose to vote for uncommitted rather than vote for her?

Why in a million years would we reward her for cheating?

[Frank Salinger]

Some people think it is unfair that the Michigan votes are not counted just because the election was illegally moved up and Obamas name was not on the ballat? These same people think that clinton is just a regular working mother? This just proves that we need better mental health care in America.

[Donald]

I'm curious to see how the Obamites and the Obama-crazed media will explain away his big loss in West Virginia this coming Tuesday. He's polling very poorly there and is expected to lose by a large margin to Clinton. He still can't connect with blue-collar voters, the so-called Reagan Democrats, who will vote for McCain rather than him. Various polls, including the LA Times, are now showing that Clinton is more likely to beat McCain than Obama. Looks like a vote for Obama is a vote for keeping a GOP White House.

[South Central LA N-Phoenix]

America is going (to coin a phrase) to the river and get stuck (what the Dinosaurs did at the La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California) over the Rev. Wight issue. There is a link that people in the know should read and moderate their frustrations / anger over this divisive issue, and lets move forward. Please click on the link below and get some insight into his black prospective. This practice had just ended years before he was born and had life images throughout his young age. If you were born in the early 50's and watched the civil right marches a common scene was the dogs, baton wielding policemen, and the high powered water hoses.

A wise person should forgive but never forget.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2008/03/slavery...

[Mitchell in New York]

On Florida and Michigan, please see

“Hillary and the Genie Do Florida and Michigan: A play in one very short act”

http://msa4.wordpress.com/

[Tina]

Here’s a summary of some good reasons to consider supporting Obama. Feel free to share with friends in West Virginia and Kentucky:
http://acropolisreview.com/2008/04/top-reasons-to-give-barack-obama-your.html

[Mitchell in New York]

On Florida and Michigan, please see

“Hillary and the Genie Do Florida and Michigan: A play in one very short act”

http://msa4.wordpress.com/

[BJ]

IF what all the pundits are saying is true, regardless of the outcome of today's WV primary, that Obama is the nominee, all I can say is... once more, the democratic party has shot itself in the foot!

The democrats started out with 2 of the best candidates a political party could ever wish for. What should they have done? They should have ran Clinton and groomed Obama, so that dems could have a 16 yr. run. BUT what do they do instead?

They run both against each other, and literally wipe each other out! Sending Obama limping to November.

The republicans, on the other hand, had no viable candidate to run! BUT, "made do" with McCain. However, with the way the democrats crafted their "stupid presidential campaign", McCain looks to inherit the presidency by default!

The democrats have run such a divisive campaign for both candidates, that no matter what they do, one side will feel cheated. And this is not going to be "smoothed over", as they would like to think, by November.

This process has become too personal, and the press and media have both exerted such undue influence on the outcome of the primaries, that they have incited supporters from each side to sling hate and vitriolic messages back and forth. After this, you expect either side to just pull back and say: "Oh well, now on to Nov." It's not going to happen, because Clinton supporters will do one of 3 things.... 1) sit out the election 2) if the republican agenda of lower taxes and tax breaks benefit them, they will vote McCain. Or 3) Write in Hillary.

And this is why the democrats have been, and wll be, shut out of the White House for many years to come!

[John B Sheffield]

Hillary even at this eleventh hour should do what is right most important for her own future political career as well as Party and Country and stand aside and fully endorse and support Senator Barack Obama as The Democratic Party Presidential Nomination.

These last few weeks Hillary's most fervent and loyal supporters have damaged her seriously with there veiled threats to vote McCain if Hillary is not the nomination this has not sat comfortable with the majority of voters, who never liked the early claim that the nomination race would be all over by 5th February, this has been seen as arrogance.

Hillary must then call on all her supporters to back The Democratic Party fully and without reservation in November's Election. The calls now being made by a Ohio Group of Women , most loyal Clinton Supporters, to campaign in every swing State for McCain to stop Obama will seriously damage Hillary herself and her future political career and respect.

[Justin]

It is now clear that Clinton and Obama need each other to immunize against racist attacks, and Obama is not leadership material, yet.

Obama ran scared. Instead of campaigning aggressively in Virginia, he went to Michigan, where the votes were not even counted. What's the message? This is not presidential conduct. If he gets to the White House, he can hide behind Hillary Clinton's skirt.

Democrats are beginning to figure it out. If chicken feed defeats Hillary, McCain's swift boat operatives will destroy Obama the way they destroyed Kerry/Edwards.

Let's cut to the chase, America is still too racist to elect a cowardly, Black President. Read this by Bill Moyers, to clearly understand the simple fact that Obama's only path to the White House is through an alliance with Hillary Clinton.

http://surftofind.com/moyers

[jee wright]

No shame has who don't respect others to observe elementary grammar rules to capitalize sentences and names.

[fghgfhgfh]

Hillary didn't have a legitimate win....you guys kill me. Just face the fact she lost and get over it....she would still lose with the delegates seated. lol

[Mamatha Agrawal]

Well said, MItchell in New York.
The Democrats have wasted a good opportunity for 16 years with these two great candidates.
And I believe HRC is equally good.
And the media has been inciting all kinds of mischief.

[Aaron]

You DO know that if they count Michigan and Florida after the final contests on June 3rd that even if Hillary gets her legitimate slice of delegates that it will likely push Obama over the 2026 delegates needed, right? If you really want Hillary to win, you'd do like she's done and STOP talking about Michigan/Florida delegates or else she'll lose.

[LonghornMama]

When Hillary Clinton leaves the race, there will be a quiet riot among the largest, most faithful voting bloc Democrats have ever had. Women work the 2 shifts necessary to make sure our kids can go to college. Women keep families together and children safe and sound when irreparable circumstances tear at the fabric of family. On the day Hillary leaves the race, women in America - regardless of who they personally endorse for the White House - owe it to this courageous women Hillary Clinton to make our voices heard as one. Women care about health care, education, and the environment. If you are a women tired of being told by anyone to leave your dreams behind, do this for yourselves. On the day Clinton leaves the race, join in one moment of QUIET RIOT -- stop working or caring for others long enough to let America know it needs to take care of YOU.

[captbilly]

I'm not saying that HIllary wouldn't have been an acceptable president, but Obama is going to win the most delegates. If the superdelegates were somehow convinced to select Hillary over Obama that would really upset a bunch of people. Instead of figuring out why hillary or Obama are somehow unelectable or unnacceptable to us, we need to figure out how to make sure that the Rove Swiftboat people don't get McCain elected.

I'm a middle aged ex Air Force officer (pilot), not a liberal tree hugger, but I can see that we have problems in this country that are not going to be solved by 4 or 8 more years of status quo. We have to get some very different politicians in office if we are going to recover from decades of corporate influence in Washington. Stop the bickering about Hillary vs. Obama. There is essentially no realistic way that Hillary can win. Nobody is going to accept the results of a primary that didn't even list Obama on the ballot. It is also extremely unlikely that Florida is going to count since the DNC said it wouldn't and because there was no campaigning there. Even if both Fl and Mi were counted, Hillary would not win, so let's move on and get Obama elected.

[jo]

The MI and FL votes MUST count as the were cast! This is America, right? No splitting the vote to keep Obama supporters from getting "angry". That smacks of blackmail. Is it OK to make Hillary supporters angrier?? The DNC need to do the fair thing when they decide at the end of this month, and IF they aren't truly fair, anger and retribution will be felt in November at the ballot box. What the DNC THINKS it's gaining in attracting the young vote will be of little effect when the rest of the country votes in November. You can't ignore all those who have contributed to making this the country it is - if the dems are to take back the White House then the most electable candidate must be the nominee... and that person is Hillary Clinton.

[toby]

So, judging by the picture, Bill Clinton has ALWAYS been cool.

I suspected as much.

[Gog8tr]

Clinton tried everything in this race including intimidation that her supporters will campaign for McCain. I have several comments about this The first being that this loss might well have been obviated if she had run a more competent campaign in the beginning. She was so sure of herself that she was to be the nominee that she did not pay attention to the organization she ran. To me this says that she would not be able to handle he power of the presidency when she becomes intoxicated with power before she gets it.

She and Bill had not had the conversation about delineation of power between them or if they did have it, Bill was not satisfied with his share. For it would seem to an impartial observer that Bill Clinton was subverting her campaign whether deliberately or subconsciously.

Despite a very strong campaign in the latter parts, I believe that Hillary was a flawed candidate who lacks the requisite skills to be president but who has been a very effective person. The way this campaign was run it reminded me too much of George Bush and because of that sense there was an uneasiness about her that was amplified by the Boznia airport incident.

My last comment is that Hillary needed to distance herself slightly from the strident portion of the women's in much the way that Obama distanced himself from Wright. Stridency is good for building a movement and gaining legislative power but when it comes to the presidency there has to be the feeling that the candidate will be president for all the people.

The women's movement attack on Ted Kennedy when he supported Obama expressed an entitlement to the office. the use of the word misogamy whenever there was opposition is self defeating. Obama never expressed racism as the cause of a rejection of him by white voter which except maybe in WV is probably the case, Until a female candidate's campaign counters the idea of misogamy except when it is overtly demonstrated there won't be a women president.

It is time that this country had a woman president but it is not something that is owed to women but to the country. As long as the women's movement feels entitled to that prize, they are not.

[lhummer Littleton, CO]

Let's cut to the chase, America is still too racist to elect a cowardly, Black President
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But racist enough to elect two draft dodging white presidents and a vice-president who had “other priorities” than to serve in the military during the Vietnam War. By the way, it’s not really an act of bravery to call someone a coward when you can hide behind the anonymity of the Internet. I’m betting you wouldn’t have the guts to say it to his face