Presidential Primary: Changes happening along the way
On the NY Times Caucus blog, John Harwood writes about how things in the US have changed since the start of the primaries, even before. It makes for an interesting read. Here’s an example: “..Oct. 22, 2006, when Mr. Obama said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he had changed his mind and was considering a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination…The average price of gas then stood at $2.20 a gallon.
And more startling results: “The electorate, too, has changed. For one, 3.7 million Americans have died since Mr. Obama revealed his presidential ambitions, government statistics show. “ Check out the blog; it’s a good read.
Besides the fact that neither democratic candidate can decide who is winnning or losing, who will stay in for how long, and more, there has been and continues to be dialogue on this issue with the chair of the DNC, Howard Dean, reporting on TV yesterday that one of the current democratic candidates must leave the race by June. Taking bets on who it will be?
And finally, according to Washington Post article : Hillary Rodham Clinton has a better chance than Barack Obama of beating Republican John McCain, according to a new Associated Press- poll. Results are: Clinton now leads McCain, 50 percent to 41 percent, while Obama remains virtually tied with McCain, 46 percent to 44 percent.
Okay, I am done, fini, tired of politics, going back to writing about health. Comments?
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May 12th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I’m a very senior citizen. My copies of THE ERICSON TRIBUNE never refer to the Republican Presidential candidate, Ron Paul. He received over1,000,000 votes in the primary elections (128,000 in Pennsylvania alone — a state in which one had to be registered as a Republican to vote in their primary). Why is he dismissed? Not all of us are Democrats, and those of us who are Republicans are not all for John McCain — who doesn’t mind the idea that our troops might be in the Middle East for the next 100 years, or that Joe (”On to Iran”) Lieberman is his close adviser. If you are “tired of politics” imagine how many of us share that exhaustion — particularly if we hear nothing except “Obama-Hillary-McCain” repeated endlessly as if they were the ONLY choices we have.