Super Tuesday 2

Yesterday was like “Super Tuesday 2” or “Mini Super Tuesday” in the race for US president. There were four contests – Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont. Rhode Island and Vermont are small states, but Ohio and Texas are large ones and both very important to the race. Firstly for the Republicans John McCain won then all. This means he passed the Republican’s magical number of 1191 delegates so he has the nomination for his party. As I’ve stated before McCain is an old fuddy-duddy and if he won the presidency then it would be a disaster for the country – and the world. It would be like having a third Bush term, especially now that he has the endorsement of Dubya. Hopefully this will be very detrimental to McCain’s campaign.

Now over to the Democrat side. Hillary won the big states of Texas and Ohio as well as Rhode Island, but Obama only won Vermont. This gives Hillary a very good reason to continue her campaign as her delegate count is much closer to Obama’s now, even though Obama is still slightly ahead. I still support Hillary over Obama for the main reason that she has a lot more experience than he does (and of course it will be great to have Bubba back in the White House!)

I think this close battle between Clinton and Obama is a good thing for the Democrats. The media and public will be concentrating more on this battle and forget a bit about McCain and the Republicans. This will definitely raise the profile of the Democrats!

Coming up next is Wyoming on Sunday (NZ Time) and Mississippi next Wednesday.

For more information see:
http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/