Michigan and Florida alone can't save Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady's best-case scenario. Her position, part of a formidable comeback challenge, is that all the delegates be seated in accordance with their disputed primaries.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080517/ap_on_el_pr/primary_scramble
especially if there is more terror here or upon Europe.
West Virginia results show that Obama is weak . No front runner has ever lost by 40 points like that and still won. This election is McCain's to lose
There is a long time between now and November.
I think Clinton has an almost impossible chance at winning the nomination barring some major misstep by Obama (but I don't doubt that is a strong possibility as he's not experienced in hotly contested elections and his inexperience has already shown through)
However I think she should stay in the race because she is most definitely positioning herself for 2012.
As far as it being McCain's to lose I don't know if that's true. Obama as the challenger does strengthen the traditional GOP base of the southern states (with exception of Virginia and NC) but to say it's his to lose this early is too quick to judge.
I will wait until they pick running mates.
At this point I think Obama will take Richardson and McCain will take Pawlenty. If that happens look for more electoral math to be scrambled.
BTW - after moving and a month of being gone it feels good to get back on here!
MikeyA
former Reagan speech-writer. Hardly the ravings of a lunatic Liberal. Sure doesn't look like she thinks McCain's a shoo-in:
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
is what it's all about.
"The Democratic argument, now being market tested by Obama Inc., that a McCain victory will yield nothing more or less than George Bush's third term.
That is going to be powerful, and it is going to get out the vote. And not for Republicans."
With an approval rating of 31%, I'd run from Bush as fast as I can. But the article also states why McCain can't run from Bush:
"What happens to the Republicans in 2008 will likely be dictated by what didn't happen in 2005, and '06, and '07. The moment when the party could have broken, on principle, with the administration – over the thinking behind and the carrying out of the war, over immigration, spending and the size of government – has passed. What two years ago would have been honorable and wise will now look craven. They're stuck."
And just who was out there campaigning strongly for Bush in 2004?
BTW - Bush is not a true conservative, oh sure he sticks hard to the right on social issues, but on the fiscal side he and his fellow Republicans have become the party of borrow and spend - They borrow from China and spend on the war and tax cuts that have basically gone to the richest 1% of Americans and pass the bill to our children. That is not in my mind a conservative principle.