I shouldn't post till I look over the numbers more closely, but I was glad to see everybody check in and wanted to report in.

What little I saw of the coverage is that the 'white vote' was a very strange bag in this election. As I said, in MY precinct most were going Republican; they are conservative evangelicals and Jesus incarnate couldn't get them to vote Democrat for a President. And there were NO other races on the ballot.   

However, in the northeast part of the state and in other districts there were three races to replace congressmen where there were free-for-all primaries on both sides. This brought out a LOT of gamesmanship; you had died in the wool Republicans grabbing a Democrat ballot to cast a choice in their Congress slot. Then, what to do about the pesky Prez slot? Well, vote for Hillary because she'll be the weaker candidate in the general election.   

Yeah, I was disappointed Barack didn't sweep the whole Democrat vote, but I really don't know how much of that was 'real' and not crossover tinkering. And, I don't know how many blue haired white ladies who remember not being able to get into law school were gonna by God vote for a woman, and good for them. Or how many conscientious Democrats just really don't think the guy is ready, and good for them.   On the black side, you had a lot of conservative voters who might have gone with McCain deep down, but when faced with this historic chance, said, hey, Obama's a good guy, I'll go with him out of brotherhood, and get my 2 cents in on the Democrat congress primary while I'm at it.   And yeah, there's some 'hell, no, I don't want an affirmative action President.'

We were the reddest state in the Union last time, so let's not expect miracles from a half-didn't-count primary.    There was almost NO campaigning done in this state, it's not like Iowa where every warm body over 21 was harangued and hustled to the polls---it was a light turnout 'special election' basically, with no hype.   Our household got not one piece of mail nor one phone call.

Guest-guest, didn't mean to slight the historic runs made by Jesse Jackson, or Shirley Chisolm (sp?).    Lord knows they paved the way and got little credit for it.

I don't agree with Obama on everything, but how cool that most people are looking at him for 'the content of his character' and finding him worthy. And that's all Dr. King asked.

I wish Clinton would get behind this new generation instead of trying to derail it. I fear what a combination of Clinton attacks and Karl Rove attacks will do.