Party Like It’s 2000
The other day after my partner had her first successful auction on eBay I decided to pull out my old hockey cards to see what they might fetch. In the process I decided to unpack one of the 3 remaining boxes left from my move a year ago. I found a newspaper in the box, a student union newspaper from UBC from 2000 with the headline: Election Still Too Close To Call. Editor: Jesus F*ck*ng Christ We Need A New Headline. I chuckled and put it into another box; I’d deal with it later.
Who knew it would be a harbinger of things to come?
The AP has crunched the numbers and it is mathematically impossible for any candidate in either party to lock up the nomination on Super Tuesday; Super Duper Tuesday my ass, perhaps now they’ll stop calling it by that insipid idiotic childish name. So it seems for the first time in recent memory states like Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania will actually, you know, matter when it comes to the primaries. Almost sounds like a democracy.
A political science professor at Duke University said it could take until the summer before we know who the nominees are, however he added “It is also possible for aliens from Mars to land tomorrow and interfere with the election.”
I can bet the first thing they’d say on the subject will be something along the lines of: how can you get things so hopelessly complicated when the nation-state to the north seems to have such a smooth, transparent, easily understood system?
I guess we know why Gorlok isn’t taking Stephen’s calls.
I have an epiphany if anyone is interested:
http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1377935786
Oh and the WGA and AMPTP have resumed negotiations as of yesterday. That story was heavily buried but I managed to dig it up. I guess the recession concerns and primary news buried it.
Speaking of which, apparently Dennis Kucinich is dropping out of the presidential race to focus on his Congressional re-election. Good man, that Kucinich.
So it looks like the narrowing of the field is happening more-or-less as I predicted. Let’s take a look at who’s left…
Democrats: Obama, Hillary, Edwards, and Gravel. Gravel would drop out if he was well enough so it’s officially a 3-person race.
Republicans: Romney, McCain, Huckabee, Paul, and Giuliani. Giuliani will fall after Florida (he’s losing New York for Pete’s sake!) and Paul might just make it to Super Tuesday but not as a viable candidate.
So in a week it will be a 3-person race on both sides of the aisle is my prediction. So who do I want to win? For the democrats I’ve made my fondness of an Obama/Edwards ticket pretty clear and for the republicans I have to say a McCain/Huckabee ticket would be great. Now I would of course like to see the democrats win and having strong republican opposition makes that less likely however I can’t help but appreciate the process; frankly seeing those four go at it, respectfully of course, could only serve to increase the awareness of all concerned.
Update: Oh my God, Bush has a moral one-up on the Clintons. Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute had this to say recently “To the extent that George HW Bush got engaged it was to speak well of his son, He didn’t speak ill of his son’s primary opponents. What has caught the attention of many people is that President Bill Clinton has seemed to taken on the role of undermining Obama’s candidacy. That is what is catching the election of mainly disgruntled Democrats.” Bill’s given up the moral high ground to an ignorant warmonger, well done. I’ll say it again, shut up Bill. One small point in Bill’s defence is that he has stated he will support Obama if he wins the nomination but how can that not ring hollow after everything he’s said lately? The guy’s carving up the party like a roast and serving it on a platter to the Republicans.
