To avoid overflowing the blog, I’ll use this thread to collect various snippets about Super Tuesday. Stories and threads elsewhere:
- Twitter: supertuesday, Politweets, very cool Google maps mashup,
- Tag clouds for liberal and conservative blogs, from Virtual Vantage point.
- Live coverage of Super Tuesday, the feeling on the ground and letters to friends and family and the Wall on the Facebook Barack Obama discussion board.
Update, 6:40 p.m.: I’m having intermittent problems getting to the Facebook threads, so they may be having a hard time keeping up with the load.
- MTV Street Team (23 video bloggers in 23 states!) and Brave New Films/Young Turks Super Tuesday coverage
- Results threads:Georgia on Kos, Georgia on the Facebook board, in the Million Strong for Obama Facebook group (Facebook account required). tip sheet for watching tonight’s results from Marc Ambinder.
- Predictions: Ambinder, Kos, Bill Clinton, Jerome Armstrong,
- Netroots open fire on Hillary for legitimizing right-wing propaganda (and breaking ranks with Henry Reid and other democrats) by accepting Fox’ debate invitation: on Kos, TPM, OpenLeft, Firedoglake,
jon | 05-Feb-08 at 6:57 pm | Permalink
There’s a Facebook thread following the rate at which people are becoming “supporters” of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Of course, not everybody there is eligible to vote today (high school students, people living in states that aren’t voting, people who are citizens of other countries), and some of the people are fans of other politicians joining to be annoying. Still, the numbers are pretty stark:
Current totals:
Barack Obama: 376,354
Hillary Clinton: 91,246
New members in the last 21 hours:
Barack Obama: 14,091
Hillary Clinton: 2,246
jon | 05-Feb-08 at 8:29 pm | Permalink
At 7:15ish I started getting weird behavior in the Facebook group … and by 7:25, I’m getting a “discussion unavailable” message.
jon | 05-Feb-08 at 8:49 pm | Permalink
A few links I cut out of the main post in the interests of space:
jon | 05-Feb-08 at 10:50 pm | Permalink
In a thread on The Nation’s excellent Campaign Matters, John Nichols originally talked about how Clinton had won the battleground states. I objected in a comment:
I’m not sure if it was my comment or something else (realizing that MSNBC, AP and others had gotten Missouri wrong), but when I checked again, the story had been substantially edited. It now says “Obama did not win so many of the batteground states. But his was still a remarkable list of victories.”