Feb 13, 2008
So There Actually Was a Delay in D.C. Voting Results
Last night I was flipping through the cable news channels in order to live-blog the Potomac Primary results, and as you’ll see if you follow that link and scroll down toward after the 9 p.m. mark, something was amiss with the District’s election returns. More than an hour after the polls closed, there was zero data from any of D.C.’s 142 precincts available from any major news outlet. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer even mentioned on-air…
Feb 13, 2008
The District is Obama Country
It’s probably little surprise to you that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won the District of Columbia’s Democratic presidential primary. Is it a surprise that the Senator won every last of the District’s 142 voting precincts? According to preliminary results from the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, that’s the case. Though the map may appear as if Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) did well in many Northwest neighborhoods, she only managed to keep Obama under…
Feb 13, 2008
Potomac Primary Nets Huge Voter Turnout
It looks like what Mayor Fenty told our reporter about high voter turnout in the District was spot on: Unofficial results from the DCBOEE show that about 38 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the city, which is both the highest of any presidential primary in 20 years, and higher than the turnout for Mayor Fenty’s defeat of Linda Cropp in 2006’s mayoral primary. Mike DeBonis has some more initial numbers this morning on…
Feb 11, 2008
Potomac Primary Madness!
The District, Maryland and Virginia are all heading to the polls tomorrow in a historic all-Potomac presidential primary. It’s such an unusual primary schedule that, especially in the tight Democratic race, it’s made the delegates up for grabs in the region significantly more important than they often have been in the past. If you haven’t run in to an Obama or Clinton canvasser in the past three days, you apparently haven’t been getting out at…
Feb 06, 2008
It Begins … Campaign TV Ads in Washington Region
Wonkette says this campaign ad for GOP front-runner Sen. John McCain will start playing locally now that the “Potomac Primary” on Feb. 12, made up of Maryland, D.C. and Virginia, is one of the next big strategic primary dates on the calendar. Below is the one of the two ads Sen. Barack Obama is now running in Maryland. UPDATE: This video is running in Maryland, according to Obama’s campaign web site linked previously. But…