Incomplete Super Tuesday results

So, here's the score to date as far as Super Tuesday is concerned.

Barack Obama is winning where you wouldn't expect him to win.  North Dakota.  Minnesota.  Utah.  Delaware.  Connecticut.  I think, by this point, that even Bill Clinton might have to admit that Barack Obama is not just the "black candidate."

That said, it should be noted that Obama lost Massachusetts despite having the entire Kennedy family behind him.  Could it be that the voters in Massachusetts actually cast their votes on a basis other than what the Kennedy Family says they should do?  Hmmm, it may be time to start rethinking the popular stereotypes of Massachusetts politics.

Hillary Clinton is winning where you thought she would.  New Jersey, New York, Arkansas, amongst others.  Ironically, I think she has actually won more contests than Obama and more delegates.  But, for whatever reason, her campaign cannot generate momentum.  Even when she wins, it feels as if she's lost.  For all the talk about Hillary not being likable enough, I think her real problem is that, after two decades in the public eye, people are bored with Hillary and Bill Clinton.  She's giving a speech as I type this.  She just bragged about the fact that she carried American Samoa.  She should be excited about the fact that she apparently won a pretty easy victory in New Jersey.  But no, instead, she's giving the same old Clinton rhetoric about how "this President" has been doing this and "the next President" will listen to the people.  Blah, blah, blah.  "Wale, the Republicans want more of da same...they see five years in Iraq and ask why not a hundred more..."  At one point, Hillary asked the same thing. 

When asked about the acting technique one of his leading actresses (Connie Mason to be exact), cult director Herschel Gordon Lewis once said that he felt that if someone removed "the key from her back," she would have just stood perfectly still.  Listening to Hillary's robotic speech, I'm tempted to think that Hillary Rodham Clinton may by the Connie Mason of American politics.

Hillary just thanked her mother.  This would be the lady who famously told a five year-old Hillary that "Rodhams don't cry" after Hillary was apparently harassed by some school yard bullies.  It's rarely said but perhaps it should be: Hillary's mom sounds like an idiot.

On the Republican side, John McCain's won the majority of the contests but the candidate who will, in the short term, probably benefit most from tonight is Mike Huckabee.  He's won primaries across the south.  One gets the feeling that he'll probably come out of this as something of a regional candidate but still, it's kept his campaign alive.  Suddenly, Huckabee's viable again.  McCain's come out of this the clear front runner but Huckabee's won himself another chance.

Mitt Romney has won Massachusetts, Utah, and North Dakota.  He needed to win more.  Would Romney have won more contests without the competition from Mike Huckabee?  Not necessarily.  For all the attempts of the various Republican candidates to remind voters of Ronald Reagan, Romney continues to bring to mind John Edwards.

As for Ron Paul -- for fifteen minutes, Paul was shown to be leading the Minnesota caucuses and it was probably the most exciting part of my night.  However, then the rest of the votes came in and now Paul's back in his usual distant fourth place position.  Oh well...

The polls are closing now in California.  There's been a lot of speculation that Obama will take California.  I think, overall, the Democratic contest remains a draw.

So, what have I learned from Super Tuesday?

When it comes to the politics of 2008, nobody knows anything.