Obama wins Oregon Primary

Bam Bam Obama won the Oregon primary election yesterday while losing in Kentucky. It appears that he now has enough super delegate votes to take the Democratic nomination.

That Bam Bam would end up with enough votes to be the Democratic candidate this week was obvious going into this week's primaries. So the only question remaining in the La La land of Democratic politics is what will Ms. Clinton do now and when will she do it? This is a crucial question because if she continues to campaign into the Democratic convention in Denver a bitter battle on the convention floor will most likely ensue. If it gets sufficiently nasty it can only work to alienate voters and further the chances of John McCain to win the November elections.

At the present time Hillary appears ready, willing and quite possibly able to bring racism to the forefront by arguing that she has carried the white vote in every state and should therefore be the party's best chance to win in November.

Another argument she has already started to use is that she can draw on her husband's experience and expertise to help her through rough times in the White House. The plain language of which states that Slick Willy will be the defacto president and not Hillary at all. How that concept will play with the voters remains to be seen, of course. Bill started this round of wars with Iraq and may well be able to bring it to a finish is a distinct possibility but the real question is not can he handle the war
but rather can he handle the economic crisis that now faces the nation and how well can he handle it if indeed he gets such an opportunity.

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Hillary won big against Bam Bam (Obama) in yesterday's only primary. While it was most certainly an impressive margin of victory it hardly indicates that the tide has changed
for Hillary. She would almost have to take all the remaining primaries by equally wide margins and that isn't going to happen.

Bam Bam Obama is still set to win the nomination.

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Hillary Clinton is now just about dead meat in the 2008 presidential race. She lost the North Carolina primaries and won the Indiana primary by a very small margin. That means that unless she can somehow pull a political rabbit out of the hat by changing her stance on important political issues by a sufficient amount to change how the super delegates view her platform she can't possibly get the Democratic nomination. It is highly unlikely that she can do that.

So now it appears to be a two horse race. But whether or not Hillary will actually pull out of the race and endorse Obama as the Democratic candidate remains to be seen.

So at this time all indications point to its having been reduced to a two horse race between Obama and McCain.

If that be the case then our indicators are currently telling us that Obama will be our next President.

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I've never written about politics before but since the elections are heating up just a bit I've decided to start checking things out and trying to come up with some projections on what the outcome of the 2008 elections might be.

Since it is obvious that neither the media nor the public has truly decided which party is most likely to prevail as of yet it will be totally impossible to accurately predict who the next president will be at this time so until that issue is decided we can only compare candidates.

Just as I use some rather unorthodox methods to beat up on debt collectors and their lawyers, I also use some rather unorthodox methods to determine what the public is thinking on any given issue, political or otherwise.

Since it appears that at the present time the Democrats seem to have a very slight edge over the Republicans I will look at who the most popular Republican candidates are as time goes on.

Right now there are only two Republicans in the race since all the others have dropped out. Those two are John McCain and Ron Paul. This is a race that seems to have extremely diverse opinions between what the media is thinking and what the public is thinking. We are all aware that the media is heavily touting John McCain as the only viable Republican in the race and they don't consider Ron Paul as even being in the race but the general public seems to have an entirely different opinion. It seems that in the minds of the public Ron Paul is wildly more popular than John McCain. It would, of course be a disaster for the media if Ron Paul were to actually upset McCain at the Republican convention and it is doubtful that such a thing will happen but what if it does?

On the Democratic side the race is obviously between Obama and Clinton. Clinton had a decisive edge over Obama until the new year rolled in but Obama now has enjoyed a huge lead over Clinton throughout 2008 and it will take a major upset to change that picture. That isn't likely to happen since both the media and the public seem to be in agreement on that matter.

Since the current trend is that the Democrats have a slight edge over the Republicans
at the present time it seems more likely that Obama may well be our next president than not.

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