Things aren’t looking so good for Democrats’ hopes for the White House this year. According to a recent Gallup poll, “a sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination.” The poll says that 28% of Hillary’s supporters would rather vote for McCain than Barack Obama, if Obama got the Democratic nomination. In addition to that, 19% of Obama’s supporters said they’d vote for McCain if Hillary got the Democratic nomination
This certainly shows the impact of the ongoing battle between Hillary and Obama is having on the Democratic Party. True, come November, I wouldn’t expect either of those figures to maintain the same level, but it is clear that the Democratic Party is divided, and the longer this primary race goes for them the worse it will be for the Democrats. But, don’t expect the race to end anytime soon. In fact, I think we’re going to see Hillary and Obama battle it out all the way to the convention in Denver. A Rasmussen poll shows that 22% of Democrats think Hillary should drop out of the race, and and equal number of Democrats believe Obama should drop out.
The Democratic Party is divided, and I’m loving every minute of it. One might even say there’s a quagmire in the Democratic Party.
UPDATE: The plot thickens…
Tags: 2008 Campaign, brokered convention
March 26th, 2008
Interesting:
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday voiced concern over the prospect of a brokered convention at the end of the party’s White House nominating contests.
“The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good scenario,” Dean said according to excerpts of an interview with NY1 television.
In state nominating contests so far, no clear winner has emerged among Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the party’s nomination ahead of November’s presidential vote to replace George W. Bush in the White House.
“I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don’t, then we’re going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement,” said Dean, who failed in his bid for the party’s nomination in 2004.
“Because I don’t think we can afford to have a brokered convention — that would not be good news for either party.”
What is it with Democrats and their fear of democracy? Right now, Democrats are battling it out for the heart and soul of the Democratic party - for Howard Dean to come along and say, “doesn’t matter, we’ll fix things up behind closed doors” is an insult to the energy and passion being shown all around American politics this year. It is also enormously funny - for we GOPers.
You see, we know the Democratic scam - we can see right through Dean, Hillary - and Obama. Its all about power, prestige and money…if you think there’s an actual idea back there, then you just haven’t been paying attention. Aside from a rote, knee-jerk slavery to various special interests (most notably the abortion industry and the public sector unions), these guys are just shadow-boxing and pretending there’s a dime’s worth of difference between Hillary and Obama (if Obama is for change and hope, Hillary is for hope, and she’ll leave us some change, if we’re lucky). Obama just sounds a lot better than Hillary - in the fundamentals, he’s a Hillary clone (and Hillary is a Bill clone is a Carter clone is a Mondale clone, etc, etc, etc).
We’ll see how this comes out - brawl resulting in an unhappy compromise, or backroom deal resulting in unhappy compromise.
Tags: 2008 Campaign, brokered convention, Howard Dean
February 7th, 2008
