One of the things that really annoys me about the current mentality of politics is the sort of untouchable aura given to a candidate based on their "electability." So, if candidate A is inferior in nearly every way to candidate B but is currently more popular or better-known and thus "more electable" they are ahead in the polls and credited in the media as a nearly invincible winner. And people go along with this. They may really like candidate B or C, but the media says candidate A is going to win and they just go along with the self-fulfilling prophecy. What a joke! (It's like saying you have to be a Yankees fan just because they have the most money and are most likely to win the World Series.) WE, THE VOTERS WILL DECIDE WHO WILL WIN, NOT THE MEDIA WHO PROCLAIMS A WINNER TWO YEARS BEFORE THE ELECTION!
Fortunately, we are seeing cracks in this unsubstantiated early proclamation of a winner by the media. The cover story of Newsweek this week was "Holy, Huckabee!" who I believe is now second in national polls and is probably the candidate that would make Giuliani the most nervous. (I asked people at lunch a couple weeks ago about running mates. Someone suggested a Huckabee-McCain ticket. I think that could work.) Today, I went over to the Economist and they share that Hillary no longer looks invincible.
Wow, imagine that. I never knew she was invincible to begin with. I would laugh all the way to Washington if we get to next November and Hillary and Guiliani are both watching things at home while Obama and Huckabee are preparing for election night.
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Obama is going to win the democratic primary, not Hillary. Clever liberals will realize that she is the kind of person who does what she needs to in order to gain power and then does what she wants with it. Huckabee is going to win the Republican primary...maybe he'll have Thompson as a vice president? Who knows.
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