Jan 16 2008
The 2008 Michigan Primaries Results
The results of the 2008 Michigan Presidential Primaries are as follows (as of 1:12 am EST):
There were two big stories from the night:
1) Mitt Romney’s win in Michigan means that the GOP race is as wide open as it’s ever been. Each major primary/caucus has provided a different winner — Huckabee won in Iowa & McCain won in New Hampshire (Romney won the very highly under-publicized GOP-only Wyoming caucus last week) — leading experts to believe that South Carolina and Florida will merely set the table for the February 5th Super Tuesday Primaries to truly decide who the front-runner should be. McCain & Huckabee are declaring that South Carolina is in their grasp, while Giuliani’s campaign is declaring that they will be victorious in Florida (though he’s performed poorly in every primary up to this point). All of this simply confirms to me the fact that it would be more politically expedient to have all of the national primaries on one or maybe two days, optimally the first Tuesday in February and/or the first Tuesday in March.
2) Hillary Clinton won in Michigan, defeating the mighty “Uncommitted” 55% to 40%. The state Democratic Party officials in Michigan had earlier made the decision to move its primary to January 15, thus angering national Democratic Party officials who were trying to reduce the number of states holding their Primaries so early and bunched together in January. Obama and Edwards withdrew from the ballot as a show of solidarity with the national Party, leaving only Clinton, Kucinich, and Gravel on the ballot. Exit polling has shown that the coveted 18-25-year-old and African American voting demographics overwhelmingly voted for “Uncommitted,” as voters were not allowed to write-in any candidates not on the ballot. With the Primaries moving to South Caroline and Florida before Super Tuesday, these numbers do not bode very well for Clinton.
On to Nevada! Saturday, January 19th, 2008!
