Well, that didn’t really clear anything up, did it?
Which is fine. I think it’s extremely healthy for the US Democratic nomination to be a long-running down-to-the-wire battle between two candidates who represent similar policy sets but very different visions, and (crucially) neither of whom are white guys. Not least because it provides extra impetus for sorting out their ridiculous electoral system, which is still a complete third-world shambles in every way you’d care to think about.
And on the other side of the fence, white guy with extra pro-war. However it shakes out it’ll be a fascinating election, and probably the nastiest election in decades as the Repub strategists go to town on triggering the latent sexism/racism (delete one) of the independent electorate.
(Props to Sonal for liveblogging the day. Hardcore.)
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I don’t think that the US elections will be nasty if McCain is their Presidential candidate. He is about as moderate as you are ever going to get with the Republican party.
If he does emerge the clear winner here (and it’s looking likely) then I think it’s going to be a very difficult race for the Democrats to win. In fact, I’m pretty sure that anyone who was supporting Edwards because they could not bring themselves to vote for a brown man or woman will be quite happy to hand their vote over to McCain. Come to think of it, a lot of independent voters would happily vote for McCain (it’s rumoured that John Kerry wanted him as his running mate).
As far as election years go, this is going to be an exciting one … sadly not so much for us …