Countdown to Super Tuesday
With only five days remaining until Super Tuesday, tempers are rising and candidates are fading.
John Edwards chose New Orleans, where his campaign started, to withdraw from the race. He has NOT thrown his support to either of the two remaining candidates in the Democratic field. Staffers have been quoted as saying that he doesn’t feel Barack Obama is experienced enough to be President and that Hillary Clinton is too devisive for the country. Seems that almost half the country agrees with him on the first point, while the other half agrees with the second.
Tonight is the last Democratic debate before Super Tuesday. It will be interesting to see how Obama and Clinton face off and whether this will be another shouting match.
And speaking of shouting matches, the final Republican debate before Super Tuesday was held last night in California. While there were four candidates at the podiums, the debate centered around John McCain and Mitt Romney. Ron Paul was there, as was Mike Huckabee, but neither one seems to have realized that this is now virtually a two-man race. I can understand Huckabee staying in the race, if only to split conservative votes away from Romney but why does Ron Paul continue on?
On Super Tuesday, we’ll learn if the support of Rudi Guiliani in New York and Arnold Swarztenegger in California will assure McCain of wins in the two most populous states. Maybe Mike Huckabee’s dream of winning a southern state will happen. Maybe Ron Paul will get more than 5% of any vote. Guess we have to wait and see.
In the meantime, we get to watch Obama and Clinton go head-to-head tonight on national television. Oh, joy!
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