The still airtight race likely will go on for many weeks with 370 delegates at stake on March 4 in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont. Without a sweep of wins in the upcoming contests, the Democratic race could come down to theconvention in August, which some party officials dread will happen.
But why? Both Obama and Hillary are looking like much stronger candidates than they were in December while McCain is the weakest "presumptive nominee" since Jimmy Carter in 1980. I don't know what's worse for McCain, the fact that he lost to Huckabee in Kansas and Louisiana or the fact that he's only getting 26% in Washington state where he's winning.
John McCain's mother hit the nail on the head when she said that conservatives would have to "hold their noses" before they voted for her son. Perhaps the McCain campaign should send out instruction pamphlets on the proper technique for holding the right-wing schnoz.
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The insiders who worry about a protracted election have it all backwards. Nobody's going to be covering John McCain's victory laps. Who cares. The Republican race is over and the only news McCain can make are headlines like "Huckabee trounces McCain" after elections like this weekend's.
Meanwhile, two very popular Democratic candidates are drawing millions of voters to the polls in states long after Iowa and NH were supposed to have rapped everything up. That will be the story until Clinton or Obama clinch it. We'll be talking about different Democratic solutions for our economic, health care and foreign policy problems. That's great news for Democrats. People care about this stuff. The insiders should quit whining and take advantage of being at center stage.
Well-said.
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