super tuesday!
Feb. 5th, 2008 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amatyultareWatching TV coverage of Super Tuesday, while simultaneously checking results online--fun times. Suddenly I care about politics again?
Random live blogging, just for fun.
As I plugged my computer in, PBS started showing Hillary addressing her supporters. Gotta say, she's a good speaker. And I find it hilarious that she's almost completely ignoring Obama. She briefly mentions needing a candidate who's 'ready from day one' but then goes off about 'a hundred years in Iraq' and the Swift Boat Vets, of all groups.
And Hillary is the second candidate I've seen tonight state that she'll 'keep jobs in America.' (Romney was the first; I think I missed McCain's speech but no doubt he claimed he'd save jobs too). Um....how? Tariffs and import quotas? I hope not. Most of the jobs being offshored aren't highly technical ones, so education won't do that much. Lower the minimum wage to make American unskilled workers more competitive? Tax breaks for corporations who don't outsource? Somehow I doubt it.
I know it's his home state and all, but I find it silly to call Arizona for McCain, even with a 15-point lead, when less than a third of the votes are in.
WTF? I just saw a state called for Obama with 13% of the votes in. I didn't even notice which state it was, that's how boggled I was. How can they make those decisions?
I'm feeling really apathetic about all of the Democratic results simply because--what is there to choose from? Rhetoric of Changing America/Solutions That Work aside, the actual POSITIONS of Clinton and Obama seem fairly identical to me. I'm sort of not a huge fan of Hillary on a personal level, but I'm just not that involved in it.
Am I the only one who sees a real identity crisis occurring in the Republican Party? The Democrats had theirs in 2004 (anyone remember Howard Dean? Yeah.) and now it's the Republicans' turn. I see it as the social conservatives versus the economic conservatives/libertarians, but where does foreign policy fit in? I'm not sure. I also am not really sure who will win (although I know whose side I'm on....)
Oh, here comes McCain--guess I didn't miss him after all. OMG I LOVE HIS WIFE'S SUIT! (I assume that's his wife?) He's so...folksy. The jokes are a huge hit. I don't know--viscerally, I just like McCain better than Romney. His caution about making statements about whether's he's won? I like that. Doesn't mean he'd make the best president, I'm just saying emotionally I like him. Which is a hard thing for me to say, post-McCain-Feingold.
And here's Obama. May I just say, on the not-at-all-important-but-striking side, that his ears are HUGE? He should grow his hair out a bit to de-emphasize them. Am I the only one who is really annoyed by 'Change We Can Believe In'? It should be 'Change In Which We Can Believe', dammit! And Obama's big policy statement is: let every child live out their dream! Awesome, but specifics, please?
Why the heck is Huckabee doing so well? Where did that come from?
Oh look, they've called California for Hillary. With only 14% of the precincts in, of course. Am I missing something? Do results from the really important precincts always come in first?
And they're also calling California for McCain. Which wraps up the show because if it's true, McCain has the Republican nomination.
McCain vs. Hillary? This is going to be entertaining.
I've run out of things to 'discuss'. Night, all!
Random live blogging, just for fun.
As I plugged my computer in, PBS started showing Hillary addressing her supporters. Gotta say, she's a good speaker. And I find it hilarious that she's almost completely ignoring Obama. She briefly mentions needing a candidate who's 'ready from day one' but then goes off about 'a hundred years in Iraq' and the Swift Boat Vets, of all groups.
And Hillary is the second candidate I've seen tonight state that she'll 'keep jobs in America.' (Romney was the first; I think I missed McCain's speech but no doubt he claimed he'd save jobs too). Um....how? Tariffs and import quotas? I hope not. Most of the jobs being offshored aren't highly technical ones, so education won't do that much. Lower the minimum wage to make American unskilled workers more competitive? Tax breaks for corporations who don't outsource? Somehow I doubt it.
I know it's his home state and all, but I find it silly to call Arizona for McCain, even with a 15-point lead, when less than a third of the votes are in.
WTF? I just saw a state called for Obama with 13% of the votes in. I didn't even notice which state it was, that's how boggled I was. How can they make those decisions?
I'm feeling really apathetic about all of the Democratic results simply because--what is there to choose from? Rhetoric of Changing America/Solutions That Work aside, the actual POSITIONS of Clinton and Obama seem fairly identical to me. I'm sort of not a huge fan of Hillary on a personal level, but I'm just not that involved in it.
Am I the only one who sees a real identity crisis occurring in the Republican Party? The Democrats had theirs in 2004 (anyone remember Howard Dean? Yeah.) and now it's the Republicans' turn. I see it as the social conservatives versus the economic conservatives/libertarians, but where does foreign policy fit in? I'm not sure. I also am not really sure who will win (although I know whose side I'm on....)
Oh, here comes McCain--guess I didn't miss him after all. OMG I LOVE HIS WIFE'S SUIT! (I assume that's his wife?) He's so...folksy. The jokes are a huge hit. I don't know--viscerally, I just like McCain better than Romney. His caution about making statements about whether's he's won? I like that. Doesn't mean he'd make the best president, I'm just saying emotionally I like him. Which is a hard thing for me to say, post-McCain-Feingold.
And here's Obama. May I just say, on the not-at-all-important-but-striking side, that his ears are HUGE? He should grow his hair out a bit to de-emphasize them. Am I the only one who is really annoyed by 'Change We Can Believe In'? It should be 'Change In Which We Can Believe', dammit! And Obama's big policy statement is: let every child live out their dream! Awesome, but specifics, please?
Why the heck is Huckabee doing so well? Where did that come from?
Oh look, they've called California for Hillary. With only 14% of the precincts in, of course. Am I missing something? Do results from the really important precincts always come in first?
And they're also calling California for McCain. Which wraps up the show because if it's true, McCain has the Republican nomination.
McCain vs. Hillary? This is going to be entertaining.
I've run out of things to 'discuss'. Night, all!
