What I Learned on Super Tuesday
John McCain is almost certain to be the Republican nominee for president even though he is not greedy enough, mean enough, and bigoted enough for the rightwing nutjobs like James Dobson and Rush Limbaugh. Dobson says that if McCain gets the nomination, he will not vote at all. I think that is a good thing.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will most likely be locked in a tight race for the next few months. The contest seems to have become one of personalities: The young, charismatic Obama who promises change, and the established, capable policy wonk Clinton who promises to not give in to the other side.
Obama’s supporters tend to be on the young side, and I can’t help but think that if he does not get the nomination, many would-be first-time voters might not vote at all.
Whoever the nominees are, they will both be burdened with the task of uniting their fractured parties. At this point, it seems as though that will be a little easier task for the Democrats than for the Republicans because there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of difference between the platforms of Clinton and Obama. The Republicans, on the other hand, will have to draw in the extreme religious right and the bigoted old white boys who cannot bring themselves to vote for McCain because he’s just not conservative enough – a ridiculous assertion.
