This is a Democrat year.
They should win, but insist on keeping it closer in the polls than it should be.
How?
They have moved further to the left throughout the primaries. That is not the way to win in the general. They refused to nominate a centrist and seem eager to force both the left-of-center front runners, Obama and Clinton, to move even further to the left.
They are obsessed with Senator Clinton, the one Democrat that could lose this fall in a fairly convincing manner.
To win Clinton must deny the Democrat Party’s most faithful voting group a chance to nominate one of their own to be the first African-American to run for President of the United States on a major party ticket. To win Clinton must ignore the popular vote and the elected delegate count. She must turn off younger voters, the future of the party.
To win Clinton has to destroy her own party.
What good would the Democrat Party nomination do Senator Clinton?
At this point, I do not believe merely putting Obama on the ticket would end the perception that she had denied destiny and forced Senator Obama into second place in a second rate political job. What would happen to turn out then?
Obama has severe weaknesses as a campaigner, as this week demonstrated, but he has the hearts and minds of the majority of Democrats who have voted. Clinton can only win by denying those hopes and dreams. Would young voters turn out in the fall to vote against her? Does John “Maverick” McCain inspire the fear and loathing of George W. Bush?
I think not.
It seemed to me that Clinton got more boos at tonight’s Obama speech than McCain.That is a bad sign for the party that may know the agony of split victories and the agony of unexpected November defeat to modest old John McCain.
Everyone sane, or at least everyone sane not named Gloria Steinem, agrees McCain is a hero, but nobody this side of her campaign staff thinks of Clinton in this way.
Good old John McCain and all of his friends will keep slogging along the campaign trail. He knows that his best chance has always been in the insanity of the Democrat Party process. McCain has been lucky all campaign season and he looks set to continue the streak.