Politisite Exit Polls, Real Time Election Results, Breaking News from WI, HI, WA

by Albert Milliron | February 19, 2008 at 05:00 pm

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Hello all you pundits, politicos, politstes, pollsters, political junkies, and casual political readers: Wisconsin, Hawaii, and Washington

Wisconsin is showing strong exit polling for John McCain. Keep it here and check back throughout the night for updates as they happen. When the Polls close we will switch to our Real time election results. Please post your photos from Wisconsin election polling places, Candidate parties, and whatever will add to the experience for NowPublic Readers. You know the Drill, The News is NowPublic

To appreciate the polling data and election results as they unfolded, we sugust that you read from bottom of the page to the top as the results and news are in reverse chronological order. We hope you ahve enjoyed our coverage of this election event and look forward to covering Texas, Ohio, and Penn.

3:53 am - Hawaii - 51% Reporting - Obama Projected as winner

X Obama 76%, Clinton 23%

3:09 am - Hawaii - 8 % Reporting

Obama 77% , Clinton 23%,

1:57 am - Washington - 54 % Reporting

McCain 49%, Huckabee 21%, Paul 7%

First Results directly from Hawaii News

1:30 am - Delegates To Follow Caucus Results

HONOLULU -- The state House has a resolution that urges Hawaii's super delegates to follow the results of the state Democratic caucus.

The voting in Hawaii's Democratic Caucus will decide how 20 Hawaii delegates will vote in the Democratic National Convention in August in Denver. The 20 would be assigned to candidates in the same proportion as the results.

However, the vote does not control Hawaii's nine super delegates, but some people think it should.

Politisite Note: Regarding Michele Obama's statement today. With all the Pundits making so much of this, " For the first time I am proud of being an American" I think we all should be proud today. White and black America have come together to support a black man for president. She may have misspoke, but America has showed that we have crossed the barrier that has divided us for years. We are at a place where we are willing to vote for a Black, a woman, a Hispanic, a Jew, or a Mormon. President Bush has quadrupled the aid to Africa. He has the most diverse cabinet in top level positions in history. Lets take it for what it is. America is coming of age. Maybe MLK and Lincoln can now rest. America is becoming what we should be the United States.

1:24 am - Washington - 53 % Reporting

McCain 49%, Huckabee 21%, Paul 7%

1:20 am - Wisconsin - 97 % Reporting - Last Report

Democrats - X Obama - 58% Delegates 31, Clinton - 41% Delegates 22

Republicans - X McCain - 55%, Delegates 31 Huckabee -37%, 0 Paul - 5% 0

Hawaii - Results will beging coming in after 1 am East 10 West and 0600 GMT

12:49 pm - Washington - 53 % Reporting

McCain - 49%, Huckabee -21%, Paul - 7%

12:20 am - Washington - 47 % Reporting

McCain - 48%, Huckabee -21%, Paul - 8%

No Democrat Data

12:18 am - Wisconsin - 90 % Reporting

Democrats - Obama - 58% Delegates 31, Clinton - 41% Delegates 22

Republicans - McCain - 55%, Huckabee -37%, Paul - 5%

The AP is also looking for footage Please go to Democrats Go to Polls in Wisconsin, Hawaii to see their Coverage

I guess only Democrats can play the Boston song, More than a Feeling, You have heard of ASCAP and BMI well now you may have to get premission from the DNC to Play cover songs on the campaign trail. [q url="http://accomackdems.wordpress.com/2008/Huckabee, Playing, " More than a Feeling", Has Boston Angry. Here is a letter to the Republican Hopeful.

Dear Gov. Huckabee:

It has come to my attention that your campaign's use of my song More Than a Feeling and my band's name BOSTON has resulted in a great deal of false information, which it now appears may exist permanently on the Internet.

While I'm flattered that you are fond of my song, I'm shocked that you would use it and the name BOSTON to promote yourself without my consent.

Your campaign's use of More Than a Feeling, coupled with the representation of one of your supporters as a member "of BOSTON" clearly implies that the band BOSTON, and specifically one of its members, has endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true.

I wrote and arranged More Than a Feeling, engineered and produced the recording, and actually played all the guitars on that BOSTON hit as well as most of BOSTON's songs, not the person holding a guitar in your promotion who identified himself as being "of BOSTON." Your claim that this was "the guy who originally did it" is a bit mystifying since he never played on that recording, nor has he been "of BOSTON" since he left my band over a quarter century ago, after performing with us for only three years.

BOSTON has never endorsed a political candidate, and with all due respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything BOSTON stands for. In fact, although I'm impressed you learned my bass guitar part on More Than a Feeling, I am an Obama supporter.

While this may seem like a little thing to you, BOSTON has been my life's work. I hold the trademark to the name and my reputation is inexorably tied to it.

By using my song, and my band's name BOSTON, you have taken something of mine and used it to promote ideas to which I am opposed. In other words, I think I've been ripped off, dude!

The unfortunate misconceptions caused by your campaign now live indefinitely on Internet news sites and blog archives.

As the "straight talk candidate," I hope you will help undo the damage still being caused by this misleading use of BOSTON and More Than a Feeling.

Still evolving,
Tom Scholz for BOSTON

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Exit Polls

Fox News, CBS News and the Associated Press have released preliminary exit poll information from the Wisconsin Democratic primary.

Key highlights:

Women: Obama 51%, Clinton 49%
Change vs. experience, 52% to 24%.
Just 17% are first time voters
Families with income under 50,000: Obama 51%, Clinton 49%
Independents: Obama 63%, Clinton 34%
Seniors: Clinton 60%, Obama 39%
Top quality - experience: Clinton 95%, Obama 5%
Union households: Clinton 50%, Obama 49%

Update: Mike Allen has more: “Democratic officials with access to exit polls say Sen. Obama looks like he’s headed for a huge win in today’s Wisconsin primary. The polls could turn out to be off, as they have in the past. But the officials’ revelation reflects the chatter in the campaigns in advance of the 9 p.m. Eastern poll closing… Obama encroached deeply into three of Clinton’s core groups of voters — women, those with no college degree and those with lower incomes — while giving up none of his own.”

Clinton Bets Everything on Texas, Ohio

In a conference call with reporters earlier today, NBC News notes the Clinton campaign downplayed tonight’s contests in Wisconsin and Hawaii while simultaneously raising the stakes in Ohio and Texas.

Said spokesman Howard Wolfson: “These are major, major, major battleground states and they will be hotly contested. It will be a major test of the two candidates.”

Also looking past today’s races, Michael Barone notes “the turf looks fairly favorable to Clinton, provided she wins Ohio and Texas March 4. Not favorable enough, perhaps, for her to overtake Obama in ‘pledged’ delegates, but enough to keep the overall delegate count excruciatingly close, unless the superdelegates start cascading to Obama… But if Clinton loses either Ohio or Texas, that’s a sign that the ground thereafter will be less favorable to her. Losing Ohio would suggest she can’t carry Pennsylvania or Indiana. Losing Texas suggests she can’t carry Mississippi, North Carolina, West Virginia, or Kentucky. Losing either probably means the superdelegate cascade starts in torrents, and she falls well behind in total delegate count. In which case her candidacy is probably effectively over.”[/q]

11:53 pm - Wisconsin - 85 % Reporting

Democrats -
Obama - 58% Delegates 31
Clinton - 41% Delegates 22

Republicans - McCain - 54%, Huckabee -37%, Paul - 5%

11:43 pm - Washington - 40 % Reporting

McCain - 48%, Huckabee -22%, Paul - 8%

11:23 pm - Wisconsin - 84 % Reporting

Democrats - Obama - 58%, Clinton - 41%

Republicans - McCain - 55%, Huckabee -37%, Paul - 5%

11:28 pm - Wisconsin - 79 % Reporting

Democrats - Obama - 58%, Clinton - 41%

Republicans - McCain - 55%, Huckabee -37%, Paul - 5%

11:23 pm - Wisconsin - 76 % Reporting

Democrats - Obama - 57%, Clinton - 42%

Republicans - McCain - 54%, Huckabee -37%, Paul - 5%

We will now begin coverage of Washington State

11:22 pm pm - Washington - 21 % Reporting

McCain - 47%, Huckabee -22%, Paul - 8%

10:53 pm - Wisconsin - 64 % Reporting

Democrats - Obama - 57%, Clinton - 42%

Republicans - McCain - 54%, Huckabee -38%, Paul - 5%

10:33 pm - Wisconsin - 48 % Reporting

Democrats - Obama - 56%, Clinton - 43%

Republicans - McCain - 54%, Huckabee -38%, Paul - 5%

10:29 pm - Wisconsin - 43 % Reporting

Democrats - Obama - 55%, Clinton - 44%

Republicans - McCain - 54%, Huckabee -38%, Paul - 5%

10:27 pm - Obama shows a clear win among white voters save one group 60+ which went to Clinton.

10:18 pm -Wisconsin - 35 % Reporting

Democrats - Obama - 56%, Clinton - 43%