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

To: longnshort who wrote (735569)	4/5/2006 9:26:42 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"some will drop out and I think it will be Allen/McCain with Allen winning" Yep... even though in a general election McCain would likely mop the floor with ANY POTENTIAL nominee the Dems could put forward in '08 (polls show he would win by around 20 pts, possibly sweeping all 50 States), still there are lots of Republicans who will be putting pressure on ALL the other candidates to QUICKLY narrow the race down to ONE 'anti-McCain'. And, I suppose, that could happen... (no guarantee though that the 'anti-McCain would emerge quickly enough to keep McCain from piling up a commanding bunch of delegates). Much of the same thing is playing out on the Dem side --- there is a lot of pressure on the field to quickly narrow down to ONE 'anti-Hilary' candidate. The main difference that I see though, is that most folks admit that McCain would WIN in the general ('cause he pulls most of the Independents), while Hilary likely would lose (maybe at best pulling 50/50 odds....) While the potential success of the 'anti-McCain' or the 'anti-Hilary' is --- at best --- still a crap shoot... since these are still HYPOTHETICAL candidates, no one has yet grabbed those positions.