Democratic battle hands McCain lead
November brings an election which should see a Democrat stroll into the White House, but the polls are saying that the increasingly bitter battle between the defeated Hillary Clinton and the man who will challenge John McCain in November, Barack Obama, is giving McCain an unexpected boost in the polls.
The shift can partly be put down to the bloody fight in the Democratic party over the past month since Clinton's surprise comeback victories in Texas and Ohio. 'No Democrats are holding [McCain] to account right now. He is free to do what he wants and he is getting a boost from that,' said Professor Seth Masket, a political scientist at the University of Denver and a former official in the Clinton White House.
At the same time McCain has launched a well co-ordinated effort to unite his party, raise funds and sell himself to the US public as a likeable war hero who is strong on national security. TV and web ads are already running, showing stills of McCain lying wounded in a hospital bed after being tortured in Vietnam.
Such tactics show how the Republicans are already fighting the general election, while the Democrats are still hotly debating their nomination process. McCain spent the past week on a national tour of America dubbed 'The Service to America Tour', which took in half a dozen cities the Republican has lived in, from Florida to Arizona. The trip generated lots of local TV news coverage in key battleground states.
Such stage-managed coverage is in marked contrast to the tone of the Democratic debate.
While McCain is doing all this Clinton is attacking Obama as unfit for office and threatening to take the Democratic battle all the way to the convention floor in Denver.
It really is time that someone intervened and stopped her in her tracks. She has virtually no chance of gaining the nomination and is now handing an advantage to John McCain.
If the Democratic race is still undecided by the time of the Denver convention in late August, then McCain will have had more than four months of having the national field to himself. Such a time frame will allow him to continue cementing a positive image in the public mind.This is the real danger posed by Clinton's behaviour, as she continues to cling on when all the numbers MUST tell her that she has lost.
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This campaign season has been hilarious. You keep giong Hillary! LOL.
You keep giong Hillary!
Why would "an independent" care whether or not Hillary kept going?
Why would "an independent" care whether or not Hillary kept going?
Being an independent does not mean that one is neutral to who wins, nor does it mean that one doesn't prefer a particular candidate.
As I've stated ad infinitum, an independent is someone is not a registered member of any particular political party. While I understand your attempt at sarcasm, what comes across instead is complete ignorance.
As I've stated ad infinitum, an independent is someone is not a registered member of any particular political party.
And I've stated ad infinitum that when I infer that you are a Republican I am referring to your mindset rather than whether or not you have registered as a Republican.
Tell me, did it take you a long time to decide between the candidates on offer or did you simply choose the one with the R after his name? Because I predicted months and months ago that, no matter who the candidates were, you'd end up supporting the Republican.
As I want a candidate who is strong on national defense and currently the Dem choices are anything but, I think it's pretty obvious that I wouldn't vote for Clinton or Obama. And I knew I would never vote for either of them before I knew who I would vote for on the Republican side.
If the Dem party ever stops pandering to the radical part of their party and were to nominate a moderate then I would certainly consider him or her.
If the Dem party ever stops pandering to the radical part of their party and were to nominate a moderate then I would certainly consider him or her.
You mean a "moderate" like Joe Lieberman? That's a Republican to the rest of us.
That's a Republican to the rest of us.
Who's "us"? You can't even vote in the US. You are nothing more than an interested observer at best.
Who's "us"? You can't even vote in the US.
The people across the planet who support progressive values that people like yourself always vote against, that's us!
The people across the planet who support progressive values that people like yourself always vote against, that's us!
As I said, if they can't vote in the US, nothing more than interested observers at best and completely irrelevant in any case.
I never said we could vote. You asked who I meant when I said "us" and I told you.
As you knew beforehand where I was posting from, I find your lecture on my voting rights simply ridiculous posturing.
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