Special: Election 2008 – Super Tuesday

By Chris Barnes | February 4, 2008

68,
‘Obama’ => 188,
‘Other’ => 4
);
$gop = array(
‘McCain’ => 27,
‘Romney’ => 9,
‘Paul’ => 10,
‘Huckabee’ => 2,
‘Other’ => 1,
);

$del_last_update = “Feb. 19, 2008 at 10:22 p.m.”;
$dems_delegates = array(
‘Obama’ => 1294,
‘Clinton’ => 1218,
‘Edwards’ => 26,
‘Uncommitted’ => 64
);
$gop_delegates = array(
‘McCain’ => 921,
‘Romney’ => 253,
‘Huckabee’ => 245,
‘Paul’ => 14,
‘Uncommitted’ => 26
);

$dems_tompkins = array(
‘Clinton’ => 6593,
‘Obama’ => 4647,
‘Other’ => 303,
);
$gop_tompkins = array(
‘McCain’ => 1927,
‘Romney’ => 1093,
‘Huckabee’ => 540,
‘Paul’ => 337,
‘Other’ => 151,
);

/***********************************
* End configuration stuff
***********************************/
$dems_colors = array(‘0000FF’, ‘4169FF’, ‘4682B4′, ’87CEEB’, ‘B0E0E6’, ‘AFEEEE’, ’48D1CC’);
$gop_colors = array(‘FF0000’, ‘FF6347’, ‘FF4500’, ‘F08080’, ‘CD5C5C’, ‘B22222’, ‘DC143C’);

/**********************
* UPDATE THESE VARIABLES
*/
$ad_fullbanner_unit_num = 418; //UPDATE THIS with the proper taxonomy ID for the full banner group
$ad_medrect_top_unit_num = 420; //UPDATE THIS with the proper taxonomy ID for the top med rect group
$ad_medrect_bot_unit_num = 419; //UPDATE THIS with the proper taxonomy ID for the bottom med rect group
$adsense_unit = 1; //UPDATE THIS with the proper unit ID from the AdSense module
$adsense_channel = 2; //UPDATE THIS with the proper channel ID for this section from the AdSense module
global $user;

$mustrun_tid = variable_get(‘mustrun_term’, 0);
$exclusion_list = array(704, $mustrun_tid);
$elections_tid = array(61, 724, 578, 560,843);

$liveblog_nid = 27296;

$result = db_query_range(“SELECT DISTINCT n.nid
FROM term_node t
JOIN node n ON t.nid = n.nid
LEFT JOIN sunweight s ON n.nid = s.nid
WHERE tid IN (%s)
AND t.nid NOT IN (SELECT nid FROM {term_node} WHERE tid IN (%s))
AND n.status=1
ORDER BY n.created DESC, s.weight ASC”,
implode(‘,’,$elections_tid), implode(‘,’,$exclusion_list), 0, 9);
$stories = array();
while($info = db_fetch_object($result)) {
$stories[] = node_load($info->nid);
}

//build the charts for the delegate count here
$dems_del_names = array();
foreach($dems_delegates as $candidate => $tally) {
$dems_del_names[] = $candidate . “: ” . $tally;
}
$dems_delegate_chart = array(
‘#chart_id’ => ‘election08_delegates_dems’,
‘#type’ => CHART_TYPE_PIE,
‘#labels’ => $dems_del_names,
‘#data_colors’ => $dems_colors,
‘#size’ => chart_size(335,137),
‘#data’ => $dems_delegates
);

$gop_del_names = array();
foreach($gop_delegates as $candidate => $tally) {
$gop_del_names[] = $candidate . “: ” . $tally;
}
$gop_delegate_chart = array(
‘#chart_id’ => ‘election08_delegates_gop’,
‘#type’ => CHART_TYPE_PIE,
‘#labels’ => $gop_del_names,
‘#data_colors’ => $gop_colors,
‘#size’ => chart_size(335,137),
‘#data’ => $gop_delegates
);
?>

Delegate Counts

Needed to Win: 2,025	Needed to Win: 1,191

Results from the Associated Press. Last updated: .

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Photos: Super Tuesday photos by Jenny Craig

Election 2008 Coverage

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