Slog - Comments on The Confusing Battle for Washington State http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat I have a piece up at Time.com this afternoon that previews the caucus fight here in Washington State. It's paired with a national overview piece by a writer, Jay Newton-Small, who touched off quite a debate in the Slog comments on Wednesday. Here's Newton-Small's take on the big picture for the weekend, which includes not just the exciting race in Washington, but contests in several other states as well: For all of his attempts to downplay expectations, Senator Barack Obama is heading into a weekend that will probably make him look like anything but the underdog.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:30:52 -0800 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:44:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Grant Cogswell Maybe Iīm just missing stuff because I`m in rural Oaxaca, but as people discounted South Carolina and Georgia because of the Black vote, I havenīt heard anyone mention the incredible possibility an Obama candidacy presents: the Democrats could take the Deep South for the first time since...Lyndon Johnson?

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931455 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931455 2008 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:50:16 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle It's caucus revolution, Baby!

Fired up and ready to go!

(even if Aislinn isn't ...)

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931462 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931462 2008 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:52:12 -0800 Comment by Cleve @1, amigo, just because Obama wins SC MS GA or even ND UT ID in a primary or caucus doesn't show the D's will win any of those places in the general election. (McCain won CA and NY -- it doesn't mean the GOP is going to win those states in the Fall.)

On history:
LBJ swept the South; but so did Carter in 1976.
In 1992 BillDawg won MO AR LA KY TN & GA (drawing about 60 electoral votes from the S). In '96 D's kept MO AR LA KY TN, lost Ga. & picked up Fl.


This Saturday we have WA, NE and LA. We have Maine on Sunday, then Tuesday DC, MD and VA. Then WI.

Obama should win most or all of these.

Look for him to be annointed "frontrunner" in the Sunday talk shows.

]]> Cleve http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931532 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931532 2008 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:25:16 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle And then when we have a primary vote in another state that Sen Clinton wins, she'll be anointed the frontrunner.

The MSM has no clue what is going on. None.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931568 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931568 2008 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:44:30 -0800 Comment by Tiffany whoa... a stranger writer makes it into time... is that significant?

]]> Tiffany http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931856 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_confusing_battle_for_washington_stat#c931856 2008 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:44:35 -0800