McCain clinches the nomination and Huckabee bowing out finally:
Sen. John McCain swept all four nominating contests on Tuesday to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
McCain won primaries in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island, giving him more than the 1,191 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination.
Mike Huckabee dropped out of the Republican race after the results came in.
“It’s now important that we turn our attention not to what could have been or what we wanted to have been, but now what must be — and that is a united party,” Huckabee told supporters in Dallas.
And look at this, HIllary won Rhode Island, is up over 150,000 votes in Ohio and is within 1800 votes in Texas….guess the coronation will have to be put on hold for the Messiah.
Texas
Updated 1 minute agoClinton – 718,882 – 49%
Obama – 717,175 – 49%
UPDATE – 1956hrs PST
CNN calling Ohio for Hillary….and one minute later so does Fox
Sen. Hillary Clinton is projected to take Ohio, a state considered a must-win for her campaign.
Clinton earlier broke Obama’s 12-contest winning streak with her victory in Rhode Island.
Obama was projected to take Vermont, but the contest in Texas was too close to call.
Go Hillary!
UPDATE – 2028hrs PST
Hillary has a 23,000 vote lead in Texas and a city thought to be a Obama stronghold, Austin, is already at 65% reported….She may pull Texas off after all.
I have to hand it to the Democrats….they went out and found someone who is more liberal and more dangerous then Hillary which is forcing me to actually root for Hillary.
I feel like taking a shower after uttering those words but there ya go.
By the way, go check out Hot Air where the newest member of that team Ed Morrissey is liveblogging using the liveblogging platform we have used at Flopping Aces for a few months now…CoverItLive.
UPDATE – 2038hrs PST
Even better news:
FOX News exit polls showed Clinton taking the lead among economy-minded voters in Ohio, who broke for Clinton by a margin of 52-to-47 percent. Those voters were split evenly in Texas, but the exit polls there showed Hispanics — a key voting bloc in Texas — were going for Clinton by a margin of 64-to-35 percent.
UPDATE – 2044hrs PST
Hillary up 45,000 in Texas now!
UPDATE – 2138hrs PST
Hillary up 53,000 in Texas now and Houston is at 50% reporting…..upset anyone?
UPDATE – 2152hrs PST
Hillary has won Texas…
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Well, I tried. I voted for Senator Obama here in Ohio. So did my wife. So did my Godparents. So did absolutely ALL of my friends (not 100% sure about one of em, but he was leaning that way last we talked).
Sad, but hey…at least we get more cackle
Sad? I’m ecstatic….they have to slug it out even more. Love it.
How offensive….I just listened to Obama speaking in San Antonio tell his supporters about the “Iraqi government that’s done nothing” to stand up. Iraqis have been fighting and dying and the Iraqi parliament has passed more legislation than the 110th Congress. General Petraeus told Wolf Blitzer:
And I also heard Hillary give her stump speech which including telling her fanbase we need to leave Iraq and go back to Afghanistan to focus on the fight.
Stuck on stupid.
I notice neither Hillary nor Obama addressed the fact we also bombed an Al-Queada holdout in Somalia!
That’s how naive they are, they think Al-Queada is concentrated in Pakistan and Afhanistan and that’s it!
Stuck on stupid is a true statement.
First really great election for the Republicans. The forces of darkness get to chase each other for another three months. Man, will Hillary dish out all the dirt on Obama. She can’t touch his positions, but with the personal stuff, the sky is the limit where she herself isn’t involved.