What Happened on March 4th?
Many thought a Texas Obama win was very possible, and although Ohio had always been a harder target for the Obama campaign polling before the race had showed a very tight primary. What happened was a message from the voters. In the primaries and caucuses that day the voters decided that the nomination process should go on; they wanted further examination of the candidates. How though, will this help Democrats win the election?
The short answer is it will not. With John McCain as the GOP nominee, McCain is free to open fire on the Democrats. He doesn’t have to worry about primaries or that pesky Huckabee anymore. The only hurdle now is a VP choice, and even that doesn’t need to be sorted with extreme expediency. While the Democrats continue playing chicken down the long road to the convention, McCain can begin his Presidential campaign. He now has free time to raise money and strengthen the GOP political machine.
Meanwhile, the Democrats need to pick a candidate, and that’s where the main dilemma stands. The superdelegates issue has been talked to death by the media, but no real solution has appeared. It now seems very likely that the Democratic convention will be the deciding point for the nomination. If this occurs, whoever wins the nomination will carry a laundry list of attacks on them by the past Democratic contender not to mention a primed and ready GOP political machine.
So as of right now, the Democrats, once seen as the party to beat for this years elections are actually behind in the race for President, with no foreseeable conclusion until the convention.
Will the democratic nomination be decided by a brokered deal between the two candidates?
Who will win the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary?
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Tags: 2008 presidential election, clinton, elections, march 4th, obama
March 11th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Here is what I think is so ridiculous, the National Democratic Party chose to strip the delegates from Florida and Michigan for moving thier primaries up so thier states would matter in the selection process, and now the DNC is asking for a re-do. Everyone in Florida knew that thier delegates didn’t count when they went to the polls, Obama didn’t campaign here at all, Clinton showed up after polls closed to claim victory. In Michigan Clinton was the only name on the ballot. This is such a huge win for Florida, thier delegates are getting such attention now, the economy will see increase as the candidates and thier entourages move through, advertising markets will explode with ads, and the only people who suffer are those of us who are trying to watch TV in Florida.
I think this issue reinforces the need for a National Primary, done on one day, and each vote is counted as 1. Whoever ends up with most votes wins the primary. The days of our country being a group of individual states has passed, we have a strong and central national government and therefore each person in the country should count equally. The absurdity of having a process in which “Super-Delegates” have additional votes goes against the basic tenets of one man one vote. The “super-delegates” vote equals roughly 13,000 voters. How insane.