"The Right will point to the Obama -v- Clinton factions bickering within the blogosphere, but that is inside baseball"
Exactly. When the nominee is finally settled the left will rally around their candidate.
McCain's poll numbers are as good as they are going to get. He has hit his ceiling and has no where to go but down.
You're right on the mark Flash..
Even Michael Moore who is so ticked at Hillary, said last night on Larry King
He will look for the big D on the ballot and not the name of the candidate..
I have too many moderate Republican friends that are not in that 23 percentile who support Bush policies.
The only way McCain will get them back is to move to the center, realize the tax cuts for millionaire's are killing the middle income, that only the poor and middle income are fighting Bushes war, and only to get money for college which they otherwise can't afford.
Agreed. One thing that people need to remember when they talk about the 'fissure' is that there is very little difference in actual policy stances between Obama and Clinton. At the end of the day, there's not any deep ideological split that will keep the party from coming together.
"Even Michael Moore who is so ticked at Hillary, said last night on Larry King"
You can no longer say I never did anything nice....NO COMMENT.
leftout,
Sorry about having fun at your expense yesterday--I was just kidding around.
Flash,
I generally (though not fully) agree with your point(s). But if the Democratic race gets more and more superficial for a lengthier time frame, the fissure might become more pronounced.
If it were up to me, both Clinton and Obama would carry on campaigning up to and including the June 3 primaries (Montana; South Dakota). I think they've both earned the right, and I'm tired of hearing that one or the other should "drop out" now.
That being said, I find the escalating of pandering tactics on the part of Senator Clinton of late (the gas tax holiday prank, which would do more damage than good; the big-government everything over the last month and a half) to be potentially destructive over the long run. (It's as though she's running an auction: "Can I get a tax break over here? Do I hear a government program over there? How about an immediate pull-out from Iraq? Going once.... Oh, wait, how about a....")
If he wins the nomination, the Republicans will slime Senator Obama with Wright, dissident professors, and elitism. If she pulls off the nomination, she will be painted as a big-government, tax-and-spend quasi-Marxist.
Regardless of how one thinks about these issues, what Senator Clinton is using to attempt to win the nomination is the same thing that might make independents think twice about voting for her in November.
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Yawn.................
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