Barack Obama Won BIG Last Night

Though conservative partisans and members of the media punditocracy are proclaiming yesterday as a win for Hillary Clinton it was clearly anything but. Consider the facts:

1. Polling showed Clinton with HUGE leads as of a couple of weeks ago.

The fact that he did as well as he did, even in states like California and New Jersey which he lost, shows great movement, momentum, and results.

2. Obama won the 14* of the 22 states that voted on Febuary 5th. Clinton won 8.

3. Obama won in every region including the New York media market taking Connecticut whereas Clinton only won 2 states that were not in areas reached by Arkansas or New York television areas.

4. Obama won Illinois (the state he represents) by a greater margin than Clinton won New York (the state she represents).

5. Obama won 8 states with more than 60% of the vote (Alaska (over 70%), Colorado, Georgia, Idaho (over 70%), Illinois, Kansas (over 70%), Minnesota, North Dakota). Clinton won 1 state (Arkansas) with over 60% of the vote.

6. Even as recently as yesterday morning people were projecting that about the best Obama could hope for would be to lose by about 100 delegates. NBC's Political Director Chuck Todd is now estimating that Obama will take more delegates than Clinton.

Barack Obama Is The Clear Winner of Super Tuesday.

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* New Mexico could be overturned on provisional ballots, but he is currently ahead.

Barbour Ad's Facts Twisted - Eaves Campaign

On unemployment they had this to say:

According to the Department of Labor’s Current Population Survey, Mississippi has the second highest unemployment rate in the nation at 6.7%. In his commercial Barbour says that “Tennessee and Alabama are going to be out hustlin’ to business too,” and indeed they have been, along with the rest of the South. Mississippi’s jobless rate is higher than all of our neighbors – higher than Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, even higher than Louisiana.

Since January 2004, Mississippi has had a full 1.0% increase in unemployment (up from 5.7% to 6.7%) – that is the largest increase in unemployment percentage in the nation.

Barbour supporters often say defend Haley by saying that at least our disaster response wasn't in itself a catastrophic failure. Wow, he did what he was supposed to, amazing. Well how about Louisiana rebounding on employment FASTER than Mississippi?

What explains the discrepancy in the number of jobs Barbour claims to have created versus the true total?

Part of the difference can be explained by population growth and double counting of individuals holding multiple jobs, but could also come from business owners unknowingly reporting illegal immigrants on their payroll. As Barbour said at the Mississippi Press Association’s convention at the Beau Rivage Casino on June 22, 2007, before Katrina there were hardly any illegal immigrants. “Since Katrina there’s been a gigantic influx and, candidly… I hate to think where the coast would be if they weren’t here.”

Audio is available at StarkvilleNow!, the comment begins at 34:10 in the recording.