The Boston Traveler

Surprise, surprise, surprise — not!

As I write at exactly 3am EST in the morning, exactly 97 percent of the precincts in Massachusetts have reported the individual results of yesterday’s Super Tuesday primary action in the Bay State, according to the Boston Herald website.

Consequently, it’s pretty much official: Junior New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (56%) bested Junior Illinois Senator Barack Obama (41%) and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (2%) among Democrats, while former Massachusetts governor Willard (really — that’s his given first name) Mitt Romney (51%) outperformed Arizona Senator John McCain (41%) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (4%) on the Republican side.

Try as I might, I couldn’t find a single local news station that provides embeddable videos for integration on other websites. What a travesty at this stage of the online revolution.

Since they’re still stuck in the early 2000s as savvy bloggers and progressive websites march forward resolutely, I’ve included a national MSNBC overview after the jump that features host Brian Williams (no relation to me, I think) and polar-opposite guests Ralph Reed and Bill Richardson providing bipartisan Super Tuesday commentary.

Boston.com also has a nifty, extremely intriguing Primary Results Map, divided by the two major political parties, that allows you to hover over individual Massachusetts towns in order to see how their votes tallied.

Why am I not astonished that Obama practically slew Clinton in many inner Boston locations — in my area Cambridge alone, he whipped her a whopping 63 percent to a paltry 35 percent — despite her overall win by about 15 percentage points?

On the other hand, why am I also not shocked that both Edwards and Huckabee fell far, far, far short of the second-place candidates in their respective parties, both garnering under 5 percent of the votes thus far as compared to an even 41 percent for their closest competition?

Just a couple of rhetorical questions.

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