Primary Colors
I’m back! Weeks of coughing up essays and blood hindered me from blogging, but no more, I tell you!
The Iowa Caucus is tommorow, and since it’s all up in the air, I will refrain from making predictions.
If Romney doesn’t win Iowa, then McCain looks the likely candidate for the Republicans, leaving Huckabee with an outside chance. If Huck takes Iowa, which the Demoines Register thinks he will, then it will be up to republican voters to prove themselves backward enough to vote for him. As a democrat, once can only hope that they do, because this man is incapable of beating any Democrat in a general election. He is too religious, too radical and too ignorant of the rest of the world for the average American; which is, in itself, quite an achievement. McCain is the one to worry about. The question is, again, whether Republicans can overlook the man’s obvious flaw; that he doesn’t seem to have the stomach to torture terrorists.
Democrats seem to think that Hillary is the safest bet in the general election, polls suggest the opposite. I see McCain having a good chance of beating Hillary, Obama, on the other hand would maul McCain.
Obama vs. McCain would be good for the democrats. Which match-up could possibly present more obvious, advantageous contrasts than this one? Obama vs. McCain, would be old vs. young, effortless vs. tortured (literally), hopeful vs. bitter, anti-war vs. pro-war; it’ll be JFK vs. Nixon all over again. Hillary has none of these advantages.
If he runs against Hillary, McCain will be able to mobilize the Republican base that has so eluded him in the past. Additionally, McCain appeals to independents a great deal. National polls suggest McCain having a 5% edge on Hillary in direct comparison, as of now. Obama draws even with McCain according to the same poll, but, as mentioned before, I can’t see McCain doing very well if they go head to head on the “television set” (McCain).
