Dan said:
What experience?
That would be small talk for Obama, And to much to write for Hillary, Look it up.
lpxxfaintxx said:
Obama all the way!
Clinton has to win 60% of all votes in order to win the nomination?
Also, Obama won Texas. Although Clinton won the primary, Obama will be walking away with more delegates from Texas from the caucuses.
Look at the past, Bill Clinton never won the caucus, But won both terms he ran.
It Hilliary wins Pennsylvania, That is all she will need, It will most likely go to super delegates, Were both can plead their case.
Obama can say, I won the little states, No i don't have the credentials to run the USA, But i can learn.
Obama has said to the American people, exactly what they want to hear, Not the reality, Obama can not produce more than 1% of the BS he has talked. Older Americans know this, We have lived through enough elections, to know better.
Obama has yet to engage in debate, with either Clinton nor McCain, That is when it gets down and dirty, The true dirt on Obama has yet to really surface, Let him debate with either of those two, and he will fall by the way side.
Jeff said:
I agree with much of what you say, Crazy ... but Obama has
proven that he can win the white vote, as well as the independents (and even independent-minded Republicans), IMHO. I don't believe it's
just the minority (non Hispanic; who are all Hillary's) vote that has gotten him to where he is now ... although, obviously, he has done well in the South which is predominantly African-American. Take Wisconsin, for example ... that was the perfect base of support for Hillary (and Obama beat her there). There are other examples ... Hillary is polarizing, and her campaign dropped the ball after her surprise win here in New Hampshire. NOW she is showing some humility, some empathy (as she did in Portsmouth, NH on that fateful day for brunch), some genuine good-hearted personality and sense of humor! Will it be too little too late ... or does she have what she'll need to secure the nomination? I thought she was done, IMHO. I was surprised by Texas, not Ohio. I'm hopeful the party can unite sooner rather than later ... but there is no doubt in my mind, and things could change my opinion in the ensuing weeks,
at this point in time it is Obama that can beat McCain based on my comments in the first part of this post, humbly -and- the fact that McCain is in my estimation, still severely vulnerable with most conservative wing of his party and is showing more than tad of dimentia with the repetitious "my friends, my friends!"
:imho:
Very intersting weeks ahead, indeed.
Thanks.
-Jeff
Obama is extremely successful getting the vote from 18 to 29 year old white people, 30 and up, he is not very successful. He carries 67% of the vote with 18 to 29 year olds.
CrazyTech said:
I hate to say I told you so, but the Obama armor chink has been found, finally. I really thought he'd propel himself into the main election before it'd be exposed, but people are finally picking up on it and there is still a chance for him to lose. Obama has run off of change, everytime you see him its the same look and the same guy behind the podium that says "CHANGE" on it. So far, so good until last night. I think when people got behind the curtain, they voted for experience over the new guy. I think the commercial made the difference. IMHO, I don't see it as fear mongering...I see it as people wanting the most capable person in office when that phone does ring and the answer is not change. Clinton wins that battle hands down. As much as I dislike her, Clinton has leadership ability to a reasonable degree. Obama can speak pretty, but he hasn't been a part of anything to say "Hey I'm a leader, not just a good speaker!"
The fact of the matter is Obama is farther left than the American people realized initially and I think this is starting to catch up with him as well. No one too far left or right is gonna win right now. There's a very clear split in the Democratic Party just as there was in the Republican camp. I'm not very happy with McCain, but I'm more concerned about an Obama. I hate voting the lesser of two evils, but here we are again. However, it all goes back to the rift that has developed. You have the more moderate middle people voting for Hillary just as you had the moderates in the Republican party voting McCain. The blue collars are particularly strong for Hillary whereas Obama has flown so far on the minority vote. That's not to say either has carried other population segments, but these have been the ones that have had the most influence. The left has picked up on Obama and they've been behind their candidate far longer than the right when they finally got behind Romney.
I agree 100%, Denver,
Obama has run out of things to promise us, He can't even produce any thing he has promised Americans. Obama has no credentials to even begin to run the USA.
I don't care for Hilliary either, But just like you say, It is better to take the lesser of two evils in this situation.
This may very well be saddest part, While waiting in line to vote last Tuesday, All the black people were saying, Now we are going to have a black President, One of our own. I don't know if that is the same in every state, But i can tell you, That is what i was hearing in the crowd here.
If that is what it is about, to black voters, then we have not come near as far as we think we have in race relations.
I would like to think, this election is not about black -vs- white, but when i heard that while waiting in line to vote, by several black voters, I was almost stunned.
