Hillary v Barack Battle. BEGIN!
Election 2008 is ON!
Various candidates have exploratory committees and it’s pretty much guaranteed that both Hillary and Obama are going to make a run for the ol’ White House.
According to this Newsweek article, Hillary beats everyone, including McCain and Obama. Barack does pretty well, too, but he looses to McCain.
Me, I like both Hillary and Barack, but both are caught in a kind of electability Catch-22. I think most people would say they like Hillary and Barack. And I think they would like to vote for either one of them, too. But these people will say that they aren’t going to vote for H or B because they think that Hillary and Barack are “unelectable”, unelectable because “most people” won’t vote for them. I do think most people aren’t concerned by and probably don’t want the race to be gender- or race-ified, but because they think that race and gender matter to the “average” voter, race and gender are going to end up mattering. It’s a race-to-the-bottom Catch 22 that’s going to end up hurting two very good candidates.
All of this is a bit problematic for Hillary and Barack. Most people would vote for them save for the fact that most people don’t think most people would vote for them. If said “most people” would stop worrying about what other “most people” would do then the candidate that “most people” liked might get the most votes …
(Honestly, this is hardly an original thought. If it weren’t for Source Amnesia, I’d say that I’d heard this originally on NPR, but that’s a safe bet since 90% of my “original thoughts” actually come from NPR.)
In any case, as Balmer would say, let’s break free from the Tyranny of Or … and let’s go with a super Democratic ticket for 2008 - the Hillary-Barack 2008 ticket. Or really, it could just as well be the Barack-Hillary 2008 ticket. Or they could both be co-Presidents. Maybe Hilary can take foreign policy and Barack can do the domestic management. I really don’t care how they split it.
I just want people who are smarter than me in charge of running the country again. Wouldn’t that be nice for a change?
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