Even if you have been living under a rock you are aware that 2008 is an election year and unless the rock you have been living under was also living under another larger rock you also realize that while the Republican ticket has been decided the Democratic Party just can’t make up their mind between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This week Clinton stopped Obama’s win streak by winning 3 out of 4 contests including the very important Texas and Ohio. Today the AP has a report out that neither Clinton nor Obama can mathematically win the nomination without the help of the so-called “super-delegates.” This means that Obama could win every remaining primary and still lose to Clinton if the super-delegates go her way. I am not a political scientist but this seems a little bit hinky to me. I also find it funny that the Democrats decided to punish Michigan and Florida but now that they matter Clinton is attempting to re-enfranchise the dis-enfranchised which, of course, will lead to counterclaims of re-disenfranchisement to those Floridians and Michiganders who didn’t vote in their primary because they knew their votes wouldn’t count. (Makes sense, huh.) The Republican Party, and John McCain in particular, on the other hand, is sitting back enjoying the show. While the Democrats will continue in-fighting all of the way to the DNC in Denver, McCain won the nomination in large part because of the many winner-take-all primaries employed by the Republicans and gets to raise money non-stop and start mounting a strategy against the eventual Democratic nominee. At the start of the year it was pretty much a given that the next president would be a Democrat but thanks to the Democrats themselves and their chosen primary system, this outcome is starting to get a little bit murky.
Look at that, I wrote about a political topic and you have no idea if I am a Republican or a Democrat.
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