Crazy ass turnout bodes well for Obama. I’m hearing that turnout is especially high in African-American and affluent white precincts, just as I predicted.
Turnout at the Pennsylvania polls is “sky-high, much greater than usual” as voters in the Keystone State cast ballots in today’s closed watched presidential primary.
In the city and the suburbs, voters streamed to the polls at a rapid clip.
Will it be Obama or Clinton? Who will grab most of the state’s 158 Democratic delegates? Will there be a record voter turnout?
“It’s impossible to quantify so early, but the anecdotal information is telling us there is definitely high turnout,” said Zack Stalberg, president and CEO of the election watchdog group the Committee of Seventy.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic presidential primary is being scrutinized across the nation. Clinton and Obama have criss-crossed the state for six-weeks, each confident of a victory that will carry them to the party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in late August.
“It’s been a mob scene,” said David Lipson, a Democratic committeeman in Upper Merion Township just before noon. Lipson said an overwhelming number of new voters had cast ballots at the Roberts Elementary School.
It’s gonna be a nailbiter.
Update [2008-4-22 17:47:33 by BooMan]: CNN early Exit Polls show Obama getting 92% of the black vote. That is substantially higher than predicted in any of the polls. For example, Survey USA predicted 87%.
Thanks for the update. Over at Kos there was a bit of doom and gloom in some comments regarding low turnout in African-American neighborhoods. Probably just folks spending the next few hours in a state of deep anxiety. Nice to hear from someone who’s actually in PA. We are all keeping our fingers crossed.
I’m saying it is an Obama squeaker.
Karma blessings. Let’s hope this holds.
But I wish the media would place an embargo on those polls. There aughta be a law against releasing of polls results on day of election until the voting is closed.
Early exits show 51-47 OBama according to right pundits. I think Obama is going to squeak out a win.
Chill. It’s going to be a long night either way. It’s not just the total number, every stat is going to be crunched and re-crunched. And nothing is real until the polls close.
True! I should just stay far away from the sphere and get my work done….
(Ironically, most of my “work” today consists of figuring out if my 4-figure ER bill from the fall has gone to collections. I NEED MCCAIN TO LOSE.)
What is this “work” of which you speak?
I was going to work from home today (had an appointment this morning to get my teeth cleaned) but I decided what the heck, come take advantage of the nice fast Internet connection while I can, and there’s nothing I’d be able to do at home besides stress myself out over what is most likely going to be a Clinton win.
But I can’t stop hoping . . .
I know it’s cynical of me, but I can’t help thinking right pundits would be supporting pro-Obama polls right now to make a Hillary victory seem like an upset. It’s in their best interest for her to win. š
Gawd, I hope Obama squeaks out a win!!!
First exit poll data, from CNN via Kos:
Seniors
Clinton 61%
Obama 38%
White Men
Clinton 55%
Obama 45%
Blacks
Obama 92%
Clinton 8%
as per Clinton news channel,
Drudge Drama: Exit poll at 5:00 PM:
Clinton 52, Obama 48
ABCNEWS: Exit Polls – 2/3 say Clinton Unfairly attacked Obama
Hmmmmm.
More Exit Polls since they’re doing this before voting ends: from the guy who breaks it drudge.
PA DEM VOTERS:
Women – Clinton 55%, Obama 44%
Men – Clinton 47% Obama 53%
nail biter it will be.
That would, I think yield a fairly close Clinton win.
By the way, as Mark Blumenthal noted, early exit poll figures have had a tendency to favor Obama by a fair margin.
i trust nothing coming from Mark Blumenthal. Nothing.
That’s great! Way to go PA!
In honor of all your hard work I clicked the donate button. So you can buy yourself a beer at the end of the day on me. š
let it be so. Pleeeeaaase.
This just hit my Inbox from Canada. There’s a new product launch…It’s formulated for Hillary….a leaflet with graphics and photos of HRC.
she’s needs a Rx for:
covers all the bases from bill to bills…
provisional ballots as they count them way last. But here is hoping that the huge turnout augers well for Mr. Obama (and us!)
Any exit polls probably are not good unless they represent the entire state (which seems to be many states in one.)
Come on, y’all. Calm down about the early exit polls. No sense in getting worked up just to have our hearts broken again. I’m standing by my Clinton-by-eight prediction until I see real, properly weighted polls and results saying otherwise. I simply can’t believe he wins it until it’s slapping me in the face.
ABC NEWS report as I cited in this thread, 2/3 said Clinton unfairly attacked Obama.
Yeah, but half said Obama did, too.
I’ll go with the 2/3 of Pennsylvania voters.
If he – Oh, I don’t even dare say it. Our office has CNN playing on another floor – I’m heading there in a few minutes…!
Am I going mad, or is MSNBC talking a great deal of sense? (I have a live feed here at work. Broadband is so wonderful.) Did Tweety just say that this race is over and it’s the media’s fault that 4 out of 5 Clinton voters haven’t caught on yet?
And a DNC ad taking down McCain . . . if this is what madness feels like I should have let go long ago.
I’m not watching it, but perhaps if it’s close Tweety can be shamed by Obama into speaking the truth for a change.
Well Pat Buchanan is on now so we will be getting dispatches from La-La Land.
And I notice they don’t have Joe Scarborough on the same panel with Rachel Maddow this time. Heh. He probably insisted.
He is scared Rachel will smack him down again. LOL
It does seem to be a regular occurrence nowadays. š
BTW, Wolfson is a wanker.
Just turned on the TV in time for the ad.
Found it on YouTube: