Super Tuesday

[Alex]

By visual support I don't mean news, rallies, etc. I mean signs of normal people preferring a candidate. I don't think I've yet seen a Hillary Clinton sign either in the neighborhood of my home or my office. Meanwhile signs of Obama support are everywhere.

Heck, other than on this board, I don't know a person in my circle of California acquaintances that voted for Clinton rather than Obama. It is a cocoon, I'm just admitting I was surprised by how misleading it was (though again Obama did have his strongest outcome in the Bay Area).

I agree that a lot of Republicans will vote for McCain despite their dislike of him simply to keep Hillary out. However, I think those are predominantly in states where Hillary isn't going to win anyway. In swing states I just don't see him being able to get out the independent vote in numbers strong enough to counteract the general malaise he'll inspire in the base. Yes, they'll say in polls that they'll swallow their bile and vote for him but when the day rolls around they just aren't going to find the energy to get out.

Really, I think Romney is the only person who had much of a chance in the general election and Huckabee ****ed it for him by giving the evangelicals a way to avoid voting for an LDS candidate without it being so obvious that's what they really wanted to do.

Of the 150 that ran for president he is the only one who has ever delivered the left's wet dream of universal health care at any scale. If he could have survived the primaries I don't think he'd have had any trouble moving back to the center. I don't think he had a strong chance but in my view it was better than McCain's or Huckabees.

And finally, how's this for screwed up?