Sunday, February 10, 2008
The Race: The Remaining Few Fight
The presidential election of 2008 is one of the closest elections in over thirty years. On the Democratic side the remaining canidates are Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. On the Republican side the remaining canidates are John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul. On a national level Barack Obama had 927 pledged delegates. Hilary Clinton has 880. McCain has 710 and a commanding lead over Huckabee, 231, and Paul, who only has 14. If their is no clear front runner for both the democratic and republican side it goes into sub delegates, or something like that. I am not quite sure how the process works, and neither are my parents. Only a few days ago Mitt Romney dropped out of the race to be come the next president. He said that he was just a distraction. Romney who is very wealthy, used his own money for the election. I think this is rather funny, and also quite sad, that he would spend millions of his own money just to drop out of the race. It would of been better if he spent that money on charity or something that would benifit society. Instead he wasted it on flyers and "Vote For Me" pins. He put so much time and effort in to the race, i dont understand why he would drop out. It wasnt even as if he was doing poorly, or was completely out of the running to becoming the next president. He just gave up, which doesnt make much sense to me. For our goverment project, the group i am in was assigned John McCain, who i didnt really like. Previously i had only wanted Obama or Clinton to win, but the more research i do on McCain the more i agree with his policies. The only policy i dont agree with is his war stance. He beleives that we shouldnt pull out of Iraq until the job is done completely and correctly. He also doesnt want to support Israel, as much as bush did. I really think that Obama would be an amazing president. I also think that Clinton would be a good president as well. Especially because she would have Bill Clinton behind her. He was a good president and has alot of experience in office. Overall i think the next months will be extremely interesting. Their will be major changes and hopefully they will be for the better.
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"Romney who is very wealthy, used his own money for the election. I think this is rather funny, and also quite sad, that he would spend millions of his own money just to drop out of the race."
- I don't think he knew he was going to drop out of the race while he was spending all that money. But I do think this was still a huge waste of money and time but at least Romney got his name out there.
"He beleives that we shouldnt pull out of Iraq until the job is done completely and correctly.."
- Unfortunatley, I think that would take hundreds of years.
"I also think that Clinton would be a good president as well. Especially because she would have Bill Clinton behind her. He was a good president and has a lot of experience in office."
- That might be true but we shouldn't vote for a president based on their spouses... what if they get divorced?
Franklin -
Yeah i find it crazy that Romney dropped out considering he could have possibly pulled though. And i agree with you on how stupid it was to spend millions of dollars just for it to be wasted becuase he simply gave up
I agree with some of your statements but especially not liking MCain. i think he is much to devout a Christian and quite old. We are the future generation of america. this is no longer the era of Mcain generation and that may play a huge role in who wins. I believe that if Obama wins we will have great policies. The same goes for Hillary.
i too think its crazy that Romney dropped out of the race after spending so much of his own money in the race, also he was close to beating McCain in a couple of primary's.good post
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