Our Morning Roundup
*Governor Eliot Spitzer's hooker, aka "Kristen," aka Ashley Alexandra Dupré (the name she goes by now), aka Ashley Youmans (the name on her birth certificate) has been discovered. The New York Times, with major help from Dupré's MySpace page, reports the story.
*Also in the New York Times:Dina Matos McGreevey, wife of former New Jersey governor James McGreevey, tells everyone to lay off Silda Wall Spitzer.
*Resignations are so hot these days! First Samantha Power, one of Barack Obama's advisors, departs his campaign. Then, Spitzer and the whole taking responsibility for his conduct thing occurs. And then yesterday, Geraldine Ferraro, quit her position on Hillary Clinton's finance committee.
*Yikes. Gawker shows Keith Olbermann's rant against Ferraro's statement and Clinton's reaction. Not pretty.
*And now for something lighter...and really salty, cold, sort of weird, and "really good and really bad," according to 12-year-old Tommy Rizzoli. It's a video showing a bunch of kids testing out the Pickle Sickle! It's hilarious--It might be my favorite video ever on Washingtonpost.com.
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7:58 am
Mississippi Primary and Party Affiliation
When analyzing the Mississippi primary, the pundits and the media is obsessed with skin color and gender. Since Mississippi has an open primary, where republicans can vote for democrats and vice versa, I find it more interesting to look at party affiliation. Using the CNN election and exit poll data, and some simple mathematics, we then learn that Hillary Clinton received 24% of her votes from republicans, 19% from independents and a surprisingly low 57% of her votes from democrats. The same numbers for Barack Obama are 5%, 15% and 80% respectively. Among the republicans, 59% voted for McCain, 23% for Clinton, 8% for Huckabee, 8% for Obama and 2% for Paul. Among independents, 44% voted for Obama, 35% for Clinton, 14% for McCain, 4% for Huckabee and 3% for Paul. Among democrats, 69% voted for Obama, 30% for Clinton, 1% for McCain and less than 1% for Huckabee and Paul.
Maybe the conventional wisdom is wrong, and republicans like Clinton much better than Obama. Maybe republicans followed Rush Limbaugh’s recent advice to cross the isle and vote for Clinton. In either case, it was republican voters that saved Clinton from a complete disaster in the Mississippi primary.
8:49 am
I thought Olbermann's rant was amazing.