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Clinton 65%, 459,144 votes
Obama 30%, 209,771 votes

That's a whuppin.

BTW, what did the Obama Memo predict for Kentucky? A 10 point loss if I recall.

BTW, do any of you at all doubt me that NBC will be totally in the tank for Obama against McCain? they want to talk about Oregon soooooo baaaad right now. I think Olbermann, Tweety and Russert will work till 2 am tonight so they can sing Obama's praises.

Finally, Horace Greeley is Obama's chance to win in November. Go west young Obama. You can't win NC, VA, WV, FL or Ohio. You CAN and SHOULD win Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. You can win a squeaker that way.

One of the stories Obama supporters like to tell us is that Obama will put North Carolina in play and Hillary can not. I think neither can put North Carolina in play. SUSA says I am wrong:

Obama 43
McCain 51

Clinton 49
McCain 43

According to SUSA, Clinton wins in North Carolina. Obama loses. So if North Carolina is part of the map changing, that seems to be an argument for Hillary Clinton. Not Barack Obama.

By Big Tent Democrat

She's starting now. I'll live-blog.

She's grateful. I want to say a special word about Ted Kennedy. He is one of the greatest progressive leaders in our party's history. He's my friend and inspiration and he's a hero to millions whose lives he has bettered. I'm proud to have stood by him in the Senate to provide health care and prevent discrimination against the sick. But that's just a snippet of his five decades in public service. He's been with us for our fight and we are with him for his.

Tonight we've achieved an important victory. Some of have said the campaign is over, your vote doesn't count. That didn't stop you. You've never given up on me because you know I'll never give up on you.

This is one of the closest races in modern history. We're winning the popular vote and I'm more determined than ever to keep going.[ More...]

And it begins. Chris Matthews tonight and previously. Keith Olbermann and Dana Milbank did it before. Puerto Rico is a big joke to them. The DNC said they have a say in the process of deciding who our nominee will be. But count their votes? Not to the bigots at NBC.

The ugly racism and bigotry of NBC now joins the previously ugly sexism and misogyny. Here it comes.

NBC has no decency. None.

Any other bad actors in the Media tonight? Let us know.

Here is Andrea Mitchell's dumb statement of the night. Obama can't pick Hillary because it messes up his change message soooo he CAN pick SENATOR Evan Bayh or Governor Ed Rendell. How stupid can you get?

Chris Matthews LIES again, claiming Obama won the young voters in Kentucky. He is simply LYING. Clinton won the 17-29 group by 20 points. And now the education lie from NBC. Clinton won the college educated by 60-34. The Obama News Network marches on.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Lois Romano of the Washington Post has an audio interview with Hillary Clinton taken yesterday in Kentucky. The topic: Hillary's views on the "sexist" treatment she has endured at the hands of pundits, media and others.

The Post sent me the transcript which appears below the fold.

Chris Matthews just violated his network rules by letting us know that NBC's exit polls show Barack Obama winning white men by around 2-1 in Oregon. Of course the Oregon polls are open until 11 pm EST. But how did he do with white women? This is rather interesting. Tweety did not tell us. Why? I am curious because SUSA projected all men going for Obama around 2-1 but women splitting evenly. Based on that, SUSA predicted an Obama 13 point win in Oregon. The question now is how did women go? And the 6% of the voters who are Asians and Latino? How did they vote? It becomes rather interesting.

By Big Tent Democrat

So says CNN, NBC, Fox etc.

Exit polls project a 30 point win for Clinton.

White voters (89% of the vote) went for Clinton 72-22. African Americans (9% of the vote) went for Obama 88-7.

My back of the envelope math tells me it will be closer to 40 than 30.

Clinton wins ALL women (57% of the vote) 67-27. Clinton wins ALL men (43% of the vote) 62-32.

BTW, Chris Matthews just lied on NBC. Clinton won college graduates in Kentucky by 60-34. Matthews lied and said Obama won them. NBC is not a news organization. More - Clinton won EVERY AGE GROUP. She won 17-29 by 55-39. She won 60 and oklder by 76-18.

It seems clear Clinton will win a huge victory in Kentucky.

Results here. On TV, they have it 149-17 for Clinton. That's 86-10. I expect Obama to close the gap from there.

Wolfson on CNN. Talking Michigan and Florida.

The Ky Sec. of State is ahead of the AP on the results. KY Sec of State has it Clinton 74k to Obama's 65k. Now 78k-66k Clinton. 8.2% lead. Most of Louisville is in. Now 82k-68k, Clinton by 9. again, most of Louisville is in.

John Edwards getting 1.5% of the vote.

First step, blame them for not voting for you. Here is a prime example of why Democrats lose white working class voters, this headline -- Appalachia's Last Chance to Show It Doesn't Have an Obama Problem.

Yes, tell voters they have a problem when they do not vote for you. Heck of a general election plan. When candidates and/or their supporters are blaming the voters, you know you have a problem.

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The New York Times has an article on Hillary's outreach to blogs concentrating on her theory that it's the map not the math.

The “map/math” phrase quickly found its way to various blogs, including Talkleft and Riverdaughter. Some, like Jerome Armstrong on MyDD examined the “map/math” argument in detail.

Mrs. Clinton started her campaign as the candidate of the establishment. It may be a measure of how far she has come -- or fallen, in the eyes of her critics -- that she is now using the megaphone of insurgents.

Insurgents? I'm flattered, but I hardly think advocating for a mainstream candidate of one of the country's two major political parties qualifies as "insurgency."

On a lighter note, when checking the archives to see when I started focusing on Hillary as a presidential candidate, I found this post from October, 2006 speculating on a Hillary-Obama ticket. Seems I thought of Obama as the insurgent back then. More...

Polls close at 6pm ET in most of Kentucky and 8pm PT in almost all of Oregon.

There are 200 superdelegates who have not yet declared. Superdelegates can change their mind up until the convention. In addition to pledged delegate counts, they can consider electability in November, the electoral map, the popular vote and anything else they deem significant in arriving at their decision.

But, since the media is so focused on delegate math, here are the numbers from an article in today's Washington Post.

• Kentucky has 51 pledged delegates, Oregon has 52.
• 200 Superdelegates have yet to choose a candidate.
• Both are closed primaries open only to Democrats.
• The remaining primaries are: Puerto Rico on June 1 with 55 pledged delegates and Montana and South Dakota on June 3. Montana has 16 pledged delegates and S.D. has 15.
• Hillary's campaign says the number of pledged delegates necessary to win the nomination is 2210, including Florida and Michigan. Obama's campaign says it's 2025 because FL and MI don't count.

More....

I was watching MSNBC, and Chris Matthews was giving Senator Ted Kennedy his due as one of the greatest Senators in the history of the Senate. And then he mentioned that Senator Kennedy was hoping to see in Barack Obama what he had seen from his brother Robert F. Kennedy - the ability to bring the white working class together with African Americans, Latinos, the old and the young. Whether Obama can do do that, and we all hope he can, it brought to mind for me the late great muckraking journalist Jack Newfield, who thought the world of Bobby Kennedy. Jack considered Bobby Kennedy the last candidate of his lifetime to be able to bring the natural coalitions for Democrats and progressives together. Jack probably would have seen the same promise in Obama. Again, whether that will be proven right or not, remains to be seen.

But in 2002, two years before he died, Jack Newfield wrote one of the great articles ever written about Ted Kennedy, the Senator. And I would like to share some of that with you on the flip.