over a month ago, before the first super tuesday, i predicted that mccain and hillary would be the presidential nominees. mccain first beat romney and then huckabee to validate my guess… tonight’s primaries in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island was more of a formality to clinch his nomination…
on the democratic front, the last few weeks weren’t as supportive of my bullish prediction of the new york senator as obama swept 12 contests in a row… tonight things seem to have turned around. although fuzzy delegate math may alter the outcome, the populist vote seems to agree with me… it’ll be interesting to see when and how this will be called. i don’t think the democratic party wants this to come to the convention, but i’m not sure how it can be avoided…
there’s some talk about a joint ticket, but i think that may actually weaken the democratic ticket for the presidential race, as a fresh and neutral face would be better to supplement hillary or obama, rather than two bruised candidates with all the baggage of one brutal primary race…
disclaimer: i am turkish-canadian, not american. my thoughts on american politics have no practical purpose and are a complete outsider’s view. basically they don’t really matter. i tend to focus on american politics mostly because turkish politics are too depressing and canadian politics are too boring… if this post bothers you, just hit the big X on the top right corner of your browser window ;) peace.
