5 Mart 2008 Çarşamba
Senator Clinton wins 3, Obama takes only Vermont
Get ready for more rhetoric and "soul searching" in the Democratic Party, as the media dubs Senator Clinton the "Second Comeback Kid." She won narrow wins in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island, leaving Barack Obama only Rhode Island.. What does this change? Not much. The delegate gap is pretty much the same. But a brokered convention looks more and more likely, which may deny the Democrats a chance to begin their Fall campaign until it is over.
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so far clinton supporters WIll be willing to switch and support Obama in a general, but Obama supporters will mostly stay home if Hill is the candidate.
YanıtlaSilAgreed 100%. Plus, it is the youth vote that is mostly coming out for Obama. If Hillary somehow is the nominee, this vote is likely to stay home for the next 8 years or so, until they reach the next major stage of their lives.
YanıtlaSilThere will still be some extra Youth vote for Hillary as many young women are excited to vote for her.
YanıtlaSilI wonder how this will effect the Vice Presidential selection process assuming it is not Clinton or Obama.
I'm not sure if as a Republican, I am happy with this or not. The bad thing for Republicans is that all of the media coverage will now be on the Democrats for the next month or two at least.
All the more time for Conservatives to forget how much they hate McCain.
YanıtlaSilRegarding glen's comment...
YanıtlaSilThe plain fact is, if the conservatives hadn't compromised so much over the last 15 years since Reagan, they wouldn't be in this position. But they kept supporting the Republican nominee even when his policies were opposed to theirs because of their opposition to liberals, and have now found that the party has moved much further left than they suspected. Bush is not a true conservative, though he does have some conservative policies. Now we have McCain, who is further left than Bush. If this continues, there will be an even further left candidate in the next round.
This is also the case in the Republican Congress, which has been much to willing to grow the government and implement policies that should never have been considered by true conservatives (in many ways the Iraq war is one of them.)
This is true in the Democrat side as well, albeit slightly differently. Democrats supported the Democrat nominee, no matter if he/she had more liberal policies than the majority, and the party has moved leftward over time. This is especially true in the Clinton years, when their was a full fledged abandonment of some liberal principles in favor of keeping the power in the hands of the party (feminists should never have supported an open philanderer like Clinton but they kept their mouths shut and even spoke in his favor, and against everything they had stood for to that point.)
At some point someone has to take a stand and decide that certain principles do matter, and not support a candidate who disagrees with enough of them. I don't know if McCain is that person, he does have a lot of strong points, but the process of defining conservative principles and differentiating them from the Republican party line needs to start to happen now.
I will likely vote for McCain (although living in a more or less liberal state, I may decide that McCain has no chance anyway, and vote 3rd party to make a statement). But I don't think I can support him wholeheartedly because I disagree with him on several issues, and more importantly on the presuppositions underlying those issues. I have no problem with people who support him and agree with him, but if you don't, you need to voice your opinion, and vote your conscience.