wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

Comments

• [1] Moiz Kapadia February 06, 2008 - 10:30AM

  Can you please explain the process of delegates going to the conventions. How are they selected by, and are they 'bound' to vote for the candidate who won their district?

  
  
• [2] brave_new_flimflam from NYC February 06, 2008 - 10:34AM

  How is Obama to unite the country, when he

  can't unite his own party, it's split right down the middle.

  
  
• [3] Alison from Manhattan February 06, 2008 - 10:48AM

  Brian, can you please talk a little more in depth about the Latino vote? Everyone keeps saying that Hillary is winning the Latino vote everywhere - and my question is why?

  In the last debate Obama was the one who said that immigrants were not taking away from jobs and that they deserve to obtain a driver's license, while Clinton said no the Driver's license and also agreed with the email that immigrants were taking jobs. I don’t understand why Obama would not have a stronger Latino vote. Obama has such a strong voice for Lation issues.

  
  
• [4] Janet from NJ February 06, 2008 - 10:48AM

  I thought Chris Matthews (rude to every guest)and Keith Olbermann (biased) were horrible.

  
  
• [5] Janet from NJ February 06, 2008 - 10:49AM

  I despise Oprah.

  
  
• [6] Nelson from NYC February 06, 2008 - 10:49AM

  Did anyone catch Karl Rove on Fox? How'd he do or what'd he say that might've been of import or note?

  
  
• [7] Chris O from New York February 06, 2008 - 10:51AM

  I love Brooke, and Bob Garfield as well.

  
  
• [8] burtnor from upper west side February 06, 2008 - 10:52AM

  One ingenue stand-up reporter on ABC actually said, when Clinton "won" NY, that she had won all the NY delegates. To ABC's credit, they later explained repeatedly that delegates are awarded proportionally -- and gave delegate estimate updates.

  
  
• [9] rick from brooklyn February 06, 2008 - 10:52AM

  I actually thought that Juan Williams and Andrea Bernstein (especially last night) seemed to discount Obama's performance. are they buying the Clinton spin that because she didn't lose a bunch of states where she recently had 30 point leads that Obama is now finished. did you notice how Andrea dodged the question from Brian about how well Obama did in thoses Red states (filled with White people)? I guess she wasn't there so it doesn't matter.

  
  
• [10] Crimson from Brooklyn February 06, 2008 - 10:53AM

  You have already mentioned this, but I can not help but be dismayed by the premature calling of the states by the media. I flipped through every network's coverage of the primaries and on every single one they were calling winners with only 15% reporting or less. This was such a major problem with the last national election and I am a little shocked that the media hasn't learned its lesson. And what kinds of disasters this could lead to in the actual election?

  
  
• [11] Susan from Kingston, New York February 06, 2008 - 10:55AM

  I am tired of listening to all of the white male pundits on all of the networks spinning their views at the expense of the voters' views. They are treating all the primaries as horse races which in the long run does not contribute to a healthly debates on the issues. Celebrity endorsements reduce the debate as well.

  
  
• [12] Jeff Arnstein February 06, 2008 - 10:55AM

  Why do the media insist on calling which states a candidate won, when, among the Democrats, the delegates are apportioned. I found this reporting very misleading.

  
  
• [13] jsu from bronx February 06, 2008 - 10:57AM

  Those Conservative commentators are just blowing hot air. They say they would vote for Hillary instead of McCain JUST SO IF HILLARY SHOULD WIN THE NOMINATION AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, THEY CAN CLAIM THAT SHE WON ONLY BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR HER AND NOT MCCAIN. THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO CLING TO POWER.

  
  
• [14] Adrienne from Manhattan February 06, 2008 - 10:57AM

  I relied on internet coverage last night and couldn't understand why the New York Times home page declared Obama the winner in Georgia at 7 p.m when polls closed there (along with everyone else) and did not update that as the lead story for at least 90 minutes, which is an eternity online. It's as if there were no other polls closing and other results being projected. What's up with that? CNN.com, MSNBC and other major outlets didn't fall prey to it in quite such an obvious way.

  
  
• [15] robbie from new york February 06, 2008 - 10:58AM

  Oprah, Uncle Teddy, Caroline Ms Shriver, John Kerry...every pundit went overboard in their fawning of B O and how historic and monumental these endorsements were. Wake up! America.. ..Massachusetts an H C blowout!!!, California a 10 point H C thrashing!!!

  
  
• [16] Richard A from D.C. February 06, 2008 - 11:01AM

  I'd like to point out that the caller who mentioned the Jesse Jackson results from 1988 was using Wikipedia. I use wikipedia a lot and its a great tool, but i would not rely on it to tell me which states Jesse Jackson won in 1988 the night after this Super Tuesday when it may very well be getting re-written to match some political points of a writer. Did Jesse jackson really win the same states? To begin with, South Carolina was a cuacus back then, not a primary. Did he also win Connecticut, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, etc? i doubt it. Also, was the vote nationally as close as it is when proportional delegate count is the thing thats important?

  
  
• [17] Denise Stires from Bedminster, NJ February 06, 2008 - 11:01AM

  I agree with your previous caller's comments about the media's love affair with Obama. Even here on WNYC, the chatter is effusive and sadly unbalanced. I hope for higher standard from NPR.

  
  
• [18] robbie from new york February 06, 2008 - 11:06AM

  Who cares about Olberman and Mathews...their ratings are an embarrasment, the lowest of ALL cable news shows!!

  
  
• [19] Liz Cooksey from Savannah, GA February 07, 2008 - 05:05AM

  Take a look at the Leonard Lopate show pages. He did a "Please Explain" about delegates very recently.