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"No pun intended by the headline, but we were a little shocked to hear that 4 polling stations in Tennessee had to close early due to tornadoes in the area. Those tornadoes have killed one person (so far), and reportedly collapsed a college dormitory and a community center. Horrible.\nFull credit to Chris Matthews, who pointed out (while trying to fill time this past hour) that McCain&amp;#39;s big wins have all come in more liberal northeastern states except for Illinois (and now Oklahoma, where he pulled out a win in a race that&amp;#39;s been tight since the polls closed at 8 pm ET). This is Giuliani&amp;#39;s now-failed strategy: to pick up the so-called blue states (and their more liberal Republican voters) and ride those numbers to victory, figuring the more conservative types would come along. But McCain is fighting the perception that he&amp;#39;s too liberal for the nomination, and is only prevailing&amp;#8212;where he is prevailing&amp;#8212;because last year, when the conservatives were convinced that he was done, they spent their time running ads against Huckabee&amp;#39;s fiscal conservative record and making people ever so slightly uncomfortable with Mitt&amp;#39;s flip-flopping and Mormonism. To a degree, those conservatives who abhor McCain are reaping what they sowed when they went after other targets. Oops.\nSince the last post, Obama has been projected as the winner in Alabama, North Dakota and Utah, and McCain has picked up Oklahoma (as previously mentioned) and Delaware, while the vote count in Missouri has turned significantly in Huckabee&amp;#39;s favor at this time. Romney picked up Utah, unsurprisingly, but appears to be losing in some of the 3-way fights with McCain and Huckabee. No one at this point expects to be able to say anything definitive on delegate counts before sunrise (if then), but that probably won&amp;#39;t stop everyone from prognosticating.\nI&amp;#39;ll be back in an hour when the last of the polls close&amp;#8212;maybe there will be some results in Missouri, where the race seems actually a little exciting tonight. With polls closing soon in California, it will be interesting to see whether they side with their intellectual brethren in New York and Massachusetts or with the smaller states that ended up tallied in the Obama column.\nHow are things looking to you? Prognostication welcome!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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