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Will Obama face McCain? We’ll know after Super Tuesday

Wednesday, 30th January 2008

James Forsyth says that the Republican nomination is all but settled, and McCain has achieved a stunning comeback. If the Democrats want the White House, they must pick Obama as their candidate and put the Clinton past behind the party once and for all

If the Democrats vote with their heads on Super Tuesday — 5 February— Barack Obama will survive the Clinton assault and go on to become the party candidate in November. He already appeals strongly to Independents and Republicans. In Iowa, Obama won 44 per cent of the Republicans who shifted registration to take part in the Democratic caucus, and he won 41 per cent of Independents. Even though he lost in New Hampshire, he beat Clinton there among Independents by ten points. In South Carolina, Independent support is what drove up Obama’s numbers among whites. Furthermore, he does better in polls against every possible Republican opponent than Clinton does. This difference will only grow because even if Hillary Clinton holds off his challenge, she will enter the general election as a diminished figure because of the ugly way in which she has eked out her victory. If Obama defeats Clinton, he will emerge as a battle-hardened candidate who has survived the worst that one of the most formidable political machines ever assembled could throw at him.

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D. Day

January 31st, 2008 3:26am

Your annointing of McCain may be premature. He still hasn't won anywhere near 50% of Rep. votes in any primary.

Sempronius

January 31st, 2008 10:27am

An interesting analysis but I'm not sure I agree with it. There is not much substance behind Obama - on national security he's a nightmare - I'm not sure he can withstand the scrutiny of the general election campaign, and he will still have to go some to beat the Clinton machine. I think now Giuliani is gone McCain is a shoo-in for the GOP nomination but I although he has a good chance against Obama I think Hillary will be a tougher prospect - much as I would like to see McCain win.

Ganpat Ram

January 31st, 2008 11:49am

So Forsyth wants Democrats to vote Obama with their brain? I think Forsyth is writing very much with his brain - as a Republican supporter he wants an easy candiadte for the Republicans to beat in the Presidential election. The very fact that so many Republican sympathisers are running over with enthusiasm for Obama makes me very suspicious. Their hatred of Hillary is not irrational, as is so often assumed: they know the Clintons are the most formidable enemies the Republican Party has had for a long time - since FDR, in fact. Nor were the Clinton tactics in South Carolina in the least bit discreditable. IT WAS OBAMA, not the Clintons, who made the election a racial matter, by claiming with nauseating hypocrisy that the Clintons' brief word of appreciation for the anti-racist legislation of President Johnson was meant, of all ridiculous things, to denigrate Martin Luther King....That was DELIBERATE RACIAL INCITEMENT BY OBAMA. For that reason alone I would NEVER vote for such a man. NO: HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT !!!!!!!!

micheal

January 31st, 2008 9:02pm

u suck Obama rules

bob

January 31st, 2008 9:03pm

Obama rules

Diarmuid

January 31st, 2008 10:07pm

Ganpat - 10 exclamation marks. A sure sign of a deranged mind.

Ganpat Ram

February 1st, 2008 1:07pm

Diarmuid: As you haven't a single serious point to make, your response is worthless. I am not surprised - such is the quality of Obamaniacs. It will be a huge pleasure when Hillary eviscerates this swaggering loud-mouthed thin-skinned conman.

NRBuchsbaum

February 2nd, 2008 1:00pm

When is the ritish press going to finally condemn the Palestinians and stop letting anti-Semitism get in the way?

j.moreno

February 2nd, 2008 1:07pm

Mr. Forsyth underestimate our capacity to elect personalities, in this case a war "hero", 71 and a half years old who expects to re-live the Vietnamese fiasco. He advocates for more wars, probably beginning the demise of the last empire. All empires end when over reach the military capacities. Roman, Spaniard, French, British, Soviet were not defeated militarily by went bankrupt.

E Ukiro

February 2nd, 2008 8:01pm

It's easy to see why someone like Ram would not like Obama. People of his ilk would not vote for someone like Obama for the most narrow atavistic reasons. While I do not accuse Ram of racism it is still not likely that he would vote for someone whose father is African - for primeval reasons. Pardon the pun.

Jim

February 3rd, 2008 2:45am

I am glad to know that the Clinton campaign staff members that are paid full time to serf the net and blob are still fully employed.

AUBREY KAMBA

February 24th, 2008 2:48pm

america has moved from democracy to oligarchy,and to say dictatorship is non existant in the u.s is a lie they say mugabe has been in power for long but voting for hillary means that having two families rule a country the same number of years mugabe has been into power.voting for hillary is advocating plutocracy , oligarchy, dictatorship.YET people are suffering because of sanctions imposed on the mugabe government.next is another bush followed by chelsea clinton.OBAMA IS THE MAN


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