La Cuesta

I have just come back from voting in my state’s primary…well, actually, my father literally voted, as I am not of legal age. But he voted my choice (for good purposes, I will not say who!). It was very simple: go inside the both, flip all the delegates’ tabs for your choice up, and walk out. I was a bit flabbergasted as to why some people spent nearly ten minutes in the booth, but, hey, if they need to do some pre-voting soul-searching, that’s their own decision.

Right now, Fox News has projected/reported the following results:

• McCain has won Illinois, Connecticut, and New Jersey
• Romney has won his home state of Massachusetts
• Huckabee has won Alabama and West Virginia
• Obama has won his home state of Illinois, and Georgia
• Clinton has wonTennessee and Oklahoma
• The Democratic races were too close to call in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Alabama, New Jersey, and Missouri
• The Republican races were too close to call in Delaware, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Missouri

There’s a great buzz on the Democratic side, that Obama is “picking up more white voters” and that he has had “problems” with Hispanic voters (obviously, both have tended to lean towards Clinton). He and Clinton are literally neck and neck in the statistics, and it is looking like there may be no clear winner from Super Tuesday. Next week are two sets of triplets, including the Potomac Primaries where voters in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia will go to the polls.

For the Republicans, it seems that McCain is keeping his strength as the front-runner. Romney might just have to pick up scraps, and Huckabee seems to be looking like the Ralph Nader of the Republicans. Speculation is that he’s looking for a veep bid. Conservative commentators such as Sean Hannity and Mark Levin don’t seem to like McCain (Levin calls him “McLame”) because he, like Giuliani, is a liberal-ish Republican. Even the super-right Anne Coulter said that she’d back Hillary Clinton for the presidency of John McCain takes the Elephant nomination.

I also thought I’d put this little treasure in. I found it when I went to Chinatown this past weekend, and since New York tends to be a Democratic state (Hillary IS our senator, after all) (although you’d never think we lean to the Donkey side if you lived on Long Island long enough)…well, you’ll see the amusement in it.