Yesterday we ran a campaign urging Republicans who disliked Hillary Clinton to vote against her in nine eight states (there was no Democratic Montana primary… yet… our bad). We figured that since John McCain was looking inevitable that, hey, it might work.  That being said, here’s how Barack Obama fared in those states:

• Alabama - Win

• Arkansas - Loss

• Georgia - Win

• Idaho - Win

• Illinois - Win

• Missouri - Win

• North Dakota - Win

• Tennessee - Loss

He won six of those eight states. Throw out essential homebase states — Arkansas and Illinois — and he won five of six. After taking a look at how he did in open primary Super Tuesday states, it’s hard to say that Republicans aren’t helping Obama at this point. I would be shocked if the numbers don’t support this apparent trend.

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” - Barack Obama

I want to add another note on Barack Obama’s win in my home state of Missouri. Missourians have accurately predicted the president in all put one general election during the past 100 years. I’d say we usually side with the winner. Just keep that in mind as we go on. My prediction is that Missouri will once again be accurate when this is all decided.

So, my internet went down for most of the night tonight, probably due to weather. That hasn’t happened in months, then it happens on Super Tuesday. Go figure.

What’s unbelievable to me is how some of the media is spinning the Democratic Super Tuesday results as a tie. Seriously?

Hillary Clinton had ginormous leads in almost all of the Super Tuesday states two weeks ago, and Barack Obama walked away with more states and more projected delegates (MSNBC’s Chuck Todd has projected him as the delegate winner by a slight margin). Personally, coming into tonight I felt like a state tie and falling short by less than 100 delegates would have been a win for the Obama camp.

If Obama can win New Mexico, then he will win 14 states to her eight. If Hillary pulls it out, he wins states 13 to nine. Either way, it’s an amazing accomplishment for Obama. After all, at one point Hillary looked to be a foregone conclusion way before Super Tuesday. She even said herself that she thought she’d have the nomination wrapped up by Super Tuesday. Not so fast, Hill.

A couple of things happened. The biggest trend I noticed was that Obama cut the gap among Whites nationally. He also once again was dominate among Black voters. Additionally, he won by sizable margins in states where he had definite advantages . Meanwhile, he didn’t allow Hillary to really take advantage of her turf like he did in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois and Kansas. Then there were the six caucuses. Obama just dominated these contests, handing out political beatdowns in each one.

That last statement is crucial, because there are three caucuses this coming Saturday — Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington.

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I’m not nervous — I feel good about tonight. I’m just anxious. We’ve been waiting for a long time and all I’ve heard about today is the GOP fiasco in West Virginia and a bunch of speculative jibberish. Even the speculative jibberish has been bunk, and that’s because the pundits are too scared after the early state shockers to make predictions/projections.

Just give us Democrats and Independents some actual news!

Argh… What is up with the bitching on CNN about American Samoa having more delegates in the Democratic party race than Florida and Michigan? Simply put, American Samoa played by the rules, the latter two states did not. If people are mad, blame the Governors of those states, blame the state legislatures, but don’t blame American Samoa. And don’t act like those delegates should ever count until after the nominee is decided. The DNC punished those states by not giving them input in the nomination. That ruling has to stand, and cannot be changed after the fact. I’m starting to believe Wolf Blitzer is a secret agent for the Clinton camp. That guy.