perfidy

Well, it looks like Kerry slaughtered Dean, Dean doesn't realize it, Clark and Edwards are altogether too happy given the implications of Vince Lombardi's aphorism, "2nd place is the first loser" (though Clark is currently edgin Edwards slightly) and Lieberman should be throwing in the towel - he didn't even clear double digits.

In surprising news, Kucinich got 2%, and Sharpton got 0%. The alien vote must have turned out in force to put Kucinich that close to victory, and as for the Don King of Democratic politics, Bejus Pundit said it best:

Sharpton got more of the vote than he deserved, IMHO. Should have been in the negatives.

James at Outside the Beltway has a good round up of the night's events.

Now that that's over, we can begin obsessing over South Carolina and the other primaries just around the corner. What blew my mind is this:

Ballot	Overall	White (58%)	Black (42%)
Clark	14%	19%	7%
Dean	9%	10%	8%
Edwards	21%	22%	19%
Kerry	17%	20%	13%
Kucinich	1%	1%	1%
Lieberman	5%	8%	1%
Sharpton	15%	6%	27%
Undecided	18%	14%	24%

Sharpton, who as I mentioned is the Don King of Democratic politics (thanks, Johno) is getting 15% of the support, and is third in that race. This is insupportable. I saw an interview with the good reverend (Crap! Now I have to wash my mouth out. Comedy is not pretty.) and he stated that his explicit aim was to gather enough delegates to play a kingmaker role in the nomination process, or at the very least to bend the Democratic platform to his will. Don't say he didn't warn you. It still sickens me that he has any, any credibility whatsoever.

But, if Edwards wins as projected, its a three way race as I don't see Clark pulling off any big upsets.