No surprises here.
A total of 23 electoral votes.
Still…losing Pennsylvania was a killer.

The only good news here for McCain is that West Virginia is still in his corner. Still, that’s only a single digit lead and these are all states that Bush carried in 2004.
Nevada: +5 Obama
Obama 51%
McCain 46%
North Carolina: +4 Obama
Obama 51%
McCain 47%
Ohio: +4 Obama
Obama 50%
McCain 46%
Virginia: +10 Obama
Obama 54%
McCain 44%
West Virginia: +9 McCain
McCain 53%
Obama 44%
Earlier [...]

Early voters are already reporting problems with these ridiculous machines.
From the Charleston Gazette:
WINFIELD – Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week.
This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County [...]

With West Virginia now being thrown into the toss-up column on Pollster.com and FiveThirtyEight, this is what it would look like if Obama won all the swing states.

What’s more, if electoral history is any judge, the pickup of West Virginia wouldn’t necessarily be a surprise. Going back to the election of 1968, Dems have won [...]

Obama: 50%
McCain: 42%
Is this an outlier? Perhaps. But even if it is, the race is probably a lot closer to being tied than most think.
The key here is Independents are breaking for Obama 50% to 38%. And I think, once again, that this shows the Palin pick doesn’t necessarily speak to “small town Americans.”
Nate Silver [...]

Ahhh Jon…it’s almost too easy…

I hadn’t seen those interviews before, but seriously…wow. Gotta love that reasoning!

The former KKK member (a long, long, long time ago) and West Virginia senator sends a symbolic message to the Democrats in his state who vote overwhelmingly for Hillary.
From WVGazette.com:
“As people all across this great nation know, I have been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush administration’s misguided war in Iraq and [...]

That’s what the exit polls are suggesting and MSNBC just called it.
If that holds up, she’ll get 19 delegates and he’ll get about 9. So +10 for her tonight is likely.
By the way, if she got 75% of the remaining pledged delegates, she’d have to get 80% of the remaining superdelegates to catch up.
Watch [...]

Oh, you mean like when she wrote off all those caucus states post Super Tuesday?
Or like the argument that because she’s winning the big states, that’s what matters?
Or her popular vote argument? You mean trying to get away with stuff like that?
Here’s the memo from Hillary’s camp:
Given the attempts by our opponent and [...]

To the polls…
Suffolk University has him down by 36 points, with 16% still undecided.
American Research Group has him down by 43, with 11% still undecided.
Rasmussen has him down by 29, with 27% still undecided.
TSG/Orion Strategies has him down 40, with 14% undecided.
The one bit of good news for Obama? The expectations are SO low [...]

Polls indicate that Hillary Clinton is headed for landslide victories in Kentucky’s and West Virginia’s primaries. She leads by 29 and 34 points respectively. Unfortunately for Clinton, this is what’s known as too little, too late.
Still, the Barack Obama campaign has to be concerned that the Illinois Senator is still underperforming in states with high [...]

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV recently had some unkind words to say about John McCain. In attempt to paint the Republican presidential nominee as out-of-touch with common people, Rockefeller said:
”McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they get to the [...]

Because of their “unique” caucus rules, West Virginians had to vote twice. After the first vote, Romney had the top spot, Huckabee was second and McCain was third. But a candidate has to get over 50% in order to get the winner-take-all delegates, and Romney only had 40.9%.
Then McCain called his people and told [...]