JOIN ME OVER AT THE OTHER PLACE

As you can tell this blog is pretty much out of business. See you at my regular site THE CAIRNS BLOG, located at johncairns.blogspot.com -- where you'll still get your political fix. In fact I've had plenty of coverage of American politics lately. I'll keep this site up, just in case I ever decide to revive it.

WYOMING CAUCUSES ARE ON

I don't think anyone in Wyoming ever thought in a million years that these would count for much in the presidential race when these were scheduled. Usually these Democratic races are over and done with long before this point, but here we are.

Looks like Barack Obama will win these things and blunt Hillary Clinton's recent momentum -- especially after a staffer had to resign after calling Clinton a "monster". Next up is Mississippi which ought to be Obama territory again.

Coverage from http://www.cnn.com/ and http://www.foxnews.com/. I'd blog more, but frankly I'm trying to recuperate from a bad cold, and so I'm quite zonked.

ALBERTA ELECTION RESULTS TONIGHT

Just a reminder that around 10PM EST will be live coverage of the Alberta vote. Here are the links to election night coverage:

www.660news.com/
www.cbc.ca/albertavotes2008/
Edmonton Journal -- Alberta Votes
Global Calgary - Alberta Votes
www.630ched.com/

Also, here's Colby Cosh with his view of the election and his own voting plans.

I notice CBC going on about how this is a historic election and some of those folks seem to be implying there could be a change of government tonight. Somehow, I doubt it. But we shall see what happens. I'll say this for Alberta, at least they have NHL teams in the playoffs and an open-wheel auto race --unlike Toronto.

(Of course, Manitoba has neither, but I'm not that impressed with Manitoba anyway these days.)

KNIVES ARE OUT IN LONDON

I posted this on Saturday over on the other site (The CAIRNS BLOG), but thought I would move it over here to the politics site since, well, absolutely nothing happened as you can tell.

(Saturday, Feb 23, late afternoon, around 5 p.m. Central time.)

Been listening to CFRB and it appears to be very bad news for John Tory at the PC convention in London. He's cancelled his media availability after the end of the vote and word is leaking out that the news for him is bad. They have also delayed the official announcement of the results. Never a good sign.

UPDATE: They are going to announce the results in two minutes.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Well, it's not as bad a result as I had feared moments ago but --- 66.87 per cent voted in favor of keeping Tory on.

Ouch. Joe Clark received 66.9 per cent, and decided it wasn't enough and called a convention. Tory says he will think things over, but this is not a very good result at all.


YET ANOTHER UPDATE (late evening): Now Tory says he will stay on after all.

It is now Monday, and all I have to say about what happened this weekend is that this is just nuts. How does Tory expect to keep a lid on all these dissidents?! The dissidents are not going to go away. In fact they are even more emboldened by this 2/3rds vote.

Yes, I've supported Tory before and had I been at the convention I would have voted no to a convention. But this is not a good result for the party at all. The Tory supporters and these dissidents threaten to tear the PCs apart for the next three-and-a-half years. I have said this before and I will say it again: the Ontario PCs are a mess.

BYE BYE FIDEL

Fidel Castro has resigned as president of Cuba.

I guess it would have been more fun if Fidel had died, or been toppled in a revolution, but the Cubans stuck in Miami will take it. It's party time in Miami for the Cubans. And look on the bright side -- once Castro dies, they can have a second party.

WISCONSIN RESULTS

It was another big night in the US primaries and Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton again. And should Hawaii fall into his corner as expected it will be 10 in a row for him. And of course John McCain won again. Results here.

BACK TO THE BALLOT BOX IN THE USA

Well, here we go again. More primaries and caucuses.

Barack Obama has won in Nebraska and in the state of Washington. Louisiana results coming.

Meanwhile Mike Huckabee has clobbered John McCain in Kansas. Hmmm -- for a guy who is supposed to have things close to wrapped up, McCain still has plenty of opposition.

WHERE THINGS STAND

Depending on who you talk to, Clinton has the delegate lead. Or Obama. Whatever. About all we know is that McCain has a big lead for the Republican nod.

Here's a look at where things are at after Super Tuesday, with nothing settled.

All I have to say is this is great news for political junkies, having a race this close. Keeps these Tuesday nights interesting, that's for sure.