Running Primaries Thread

And that's why I roll my eyes when I see Hillary talking about how she needs to be the nominee, so the Democrats can win Ohio, New York and California ... like Democrats wouldn't win those states anyway with any decent candidate.

 

Slate, on why some of us West Wing fans are feeling deja-vu ...

 

The last Ohio JM/BO matchup poll (from Quinnipiac, who I don't love, but it is what it is) has BO beating JM by two points.

And Oz's point, directly above, remains well-taken.

 

Loved the headline from the Economist:

Die another day

 

There's still plenty of time for things to change, but FB is right. HRC's backers will line up behind Obama, and the few that don't will be more than balanced by the conservatives who actually stay home.

Within a week after HRC concedes, Obama's poll numbers against McCain will sshoot up. Same thing if by some miracle HRC wins.

 

It's not an encouraging sign for McCain as well that he's already casting about for a vice president in hopes of an early announcement, rather than making a big reveal (watched too much Trading Spaces, I guess) right before the convention. Even if he's searching for a red-meat fundie type as a sop to the Huckabeens, I wonder if a lot of people will opt out for fear of what a probable loss will do to their own political futures.

 

No, I don't think enough blue-collar white voters will jump to Obama in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The same is true of older white voters.

 

That's OK, he's going deep into the wingnut fever swamp soon.
http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/03/04/mccain-to-speak-to-council-for-national-policy-friday/

What a renegade maverick straight-talker he is.

 

Today's photos with Bush won't help much, either. Bush-McCain! Bush-McCain! Bush-McCain! I'm getting ready to hear that 1,00000000000000000000000 times between now and Nov.

 

He keeps handholding with fringe characters such as Brownshirt and Kyl, and moderates will spit up into their airline-sickness bags and run towards any
viable alternative.

 

McCain's politically untenable -- but true -- statement in Michigan that "these jobs aren't coming back" will blunt blue-collar support in those states as well.

 

Might be time for Barack, in response to HRC's "me and Johnny Mac have the experience" trope, to start talking about the "Bush-McCain-Clinton war in Iraq."
Here's a visual aid.