Another Busy Tuesday in Politics!
Today is crunch day for three of the Republican candidates in Michigan. According to polls (yeah, right!), Mitt Romney and John McCain are tied for frontrunner, with Mike Huckabee functioning as the ’spoiler’ at present. No one really seems to know what will happen in a state that is falling-apart financially and, apparently, politically.
John McCain is calling in endorsements from cohorts from his many years on the political scene, while Romney is hoping that his “home state” links will give him an edge. Apparently, Romney has the most riding on the outcome of the votes, with a poor showing almost certainly sounding the death knell for his campaign. Huckabee needs the votes of the same conservatives that Romney wants, but there are other factors in play as well.
First, the weather always plays a prominent role in any election and Michigan got snow yesterday. That may seem like a little thing in a northern state used to snow, but elections have been turned on weather. And there is another factor that is unique to this election in this state. Democrats have had their delegates stripped by the National Democratic Party and they are hopping mad. Since they can vote for a candidate in either party, even though they are registered as Democrats, several of these angry voters have been interviewed as threatening to vote Republican just to skew the results. In fact, several young men were quoted as saying they were voting for Romney just to give him “false hope” and “make him spend more of his own money”. Sounds rather mean-spirited, but there are some very unhappy people in Michigan, especially with the dire financial conditions there. A newscaster called Michigan a “one state recession” just this morning.
Tonight will be a busy time for Nevada and the Democratic candidates also. As the votes are being tabulated for the Michigan results, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will face off in another Democratic debate. Hmmm! Wonder if John Edwards will be there? All the news has been about the furor between Clinton and Obama over the “racism” issue. Supposedly, the two camps have agreed to set the issue aside for the time being, though both the gender issue and the race issue are not going to go away during this campaign season. It remains to be seen what this debate will mean to the Nevada and South Carolina primaries on Thursday.
Maybe we’ll know more before Super Tuesday, or maybe we won’t!
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