This latest Sam Stein blog was posted at 12:19 am on May 7th 2008. I have started to write this response at 1:55 am on the same evening. This shows to me something very clear: that multimedia journalism has an immediacy to it that can’t be found in other forms of journalism. The printing presses have long started in the normal print world, and probably won’t have complete coverage of the results of tonight’s primaries. This blog has a lot to do with the election, but not what is normally covered anymore: John McCain.
McCain's Rough Night Overshadowed By Clinton's:
McCain, according to the numbers has a quite a problem on his hands. McCain has only one opponent who is still technically in the race and that is Ron Paul. The election results show McCain with what would have been a large victory had the race been fully contested. These numbers should be much larger then they are since nobody of note is still in the race. According to the data, in North Carolina there are 105,000 who voted in the uncontested primary for somebody other than McCain. In Indiana, the number of people who voted for a candidate other than McCain is 85,000. These numbers are also shown in the race last week in Pennsylvania where McCain got 73 percent of the vote compared to Paul’s 17 and Huckabee’s 11. The title of the blog says it all “McCain’s Rough Night Overshadowed by Clinton’s.”
The blog barley mentions the Democratic Race because the results were not fully processed by the time the blog was posted. I will update this blog with newer information on the Democratic race when or if Stein updates his blog. The results from last night and early this morning are not exactly good for Clinton. Clinton did win in Indiana, but apparently will only gain about four delegates in the effort. Obama on the other hand gained eight delegates his North Carolina victory. Obama has a net gain of four delegates in tonight’s primaries. In last weeks primary in Pennsylvania Clinton had a net gain of 12 delegates. Since, the primaries had started back up last week Clinton had gained 8 delegates. It seems that time is running out for Clinton’s campaign. On a related note CNN.com has a new feature that is really interesting to this news story. They have a new interactive delegate count tracker, which allows you to predict how the final primaries will go. You plug in the percentages of how you think the vote will go and the computer calculates how much delegates would be won. On the bottom of the interactive module is a bar that is the super delegate counter. You can also slide that around to predict how the super delegates will vote if indeed their vote will be allowed to sway the primary one way or another. DNC chairman Dr. Howard Dean has said that it would be a disaster for the party if the super delegates were allowed to choose the winner, so I don’t think that will happen. You can reach this Democratic delegate counter here.
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