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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (735557)	4/5/2006 9:06:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"George Allen" Yep... he's certainly got a chance. Most handicapping has him in second place right now behind McCain. Personally though, I think there is a strong possibility that a lot of the guys running for the 'social conservative' Party vote (Allen, Brownback, Romney, Frist, etc.) will bunch up and keep each other in the single digits --- possibly allowing McCain to sweep through the primaries with first/second/or third place finishes in each... which would give him a commanding number of delegates. Here is one attempt at handicapping: ABC VOTE 2008: INVISIBLE PRIMARY RATINGS: (The closer the rating is to 1.0, the better chance of securing the nomination.) Invisible Primary Ratings --- Republicans Potential Candidates John McCain 1.42 George Allen 3.58 Mitt Romney 4.05 Rudy Giuliani 4.63 Mike Huckabee 5.53 Newt Gingrich 6.11 Bill Frist 6.16 George Pataki 7.00 Chuck Hagel 7.89 Sam Brownback 8.26 Tom Tancredo 10.58 Invisible Primary Ratings --- Democrats Potential Candidates Hillary Clinton 1.74 John Edwards 2.89 Mark Warner 4.00 John Kerry 5.68 Tom Vilsack 5.95 Evan Bayh 5.95 Bill Richardson 6.58 Joe Biden 6.68 Wesley Clark 7.47 Tom Daschle 7.63 Russ Feingold 8.42 abcnews.go.com