Hillary?
Hillary never actually dropped out of the race for president. Nor did Obama get enough votes and delegates to lock in the nomination. The Democrat leaders have appointed themselves "super delegates" so if they disagree with the voters in the primary they can elect whoever they want, and outpower the voters. Enough "super delegates" said they'd vote for Obama, it didn't matter that Clinton won the popular vote.

So she "suspends" her campaign and endorses BHO (not HBO, Barak Hussein Obama). Lots of her supporters are understandably upset and plan on voting for McCain. Hillary's people and Barak's people worked out a deal yesterday.

Hillary will speak on Tuesday night of the convention. Bill Clinton will speak on Wednesday night of the convention. Hillary's name will be placed in officially as a nominee. My guess? The Clintons
(or people they officially don't know) leaks some incredibly negative news story to the media the day before Hillary speaks. Hillary appears extremely presidential in her speech, but defends Barak against the media's attack, and when the vote is taken at the convention, more people actually vote for Hillary and while she appears humble, her people are working behind the scenes to get the nomination, and kick Barak Obama out, maybe offering him the VP slot.

Colorado
Yesterday McCain took the lead in Colorado over Obama for the first time.

Future Poll Numbers
Barak will soon have a more significant lead over McCain because

• He'll get a boost from the Democrat's convention later this month.
• He'll get a boost from chosing his VP

But then McCain will have his convention and pick his VP, so he'll get a boost a few weeks after Obama, so going into the election it will likely all even out.

3 comments

1. Jen on 8/15/08, 9:47 AM

   Interesting. You can't say this whole thing hasn't been fascinating. :)

    
2. Jon the legal immigrant on 8/15/08, 10:05 AM

   Definitely. As a politician and presidential candidate who won the majority vote in the primary, she ought to fight for it if she can, but I guess it depends on what kind of negative dirt her people come up with. The Clintons are infamous for the "politics of personal destruction"
   
   Hey, are these posts too long?

    
3. Jen on 8/22/08, 9:57 AM

   I don't think so ... but then I'd rather have longer posts that answer my questions before I ask them.