That Guy on 06 February 2008
| The_vagabond7 said: I don't understand why the democrats go through all the hoops with superdelegates, splitting delegates, ect ect. Why is that advantageous? The republican candidate is pretty much a lock at this point with McCain, which seems alot more advantageous. He's less likely to get pulled through the mud by the other nominees trying to get ahead, and it gives more time to try to get as many republicans behind him as possible. Where as Obama and Clinton will probably tear into each other now, drag each other's names through the mud, try as hard as possible to make the eventual winner look as incompetent and evil as possible, and end at the finish line by a nose with a very bitterly divided democratic base. I want a democrat to win (though McCain's not looking too shabby), but it seems like the democrats are pretty self defeating. Is there some brilliant hidden advantage to their process that I am unaware of? I'd like to know if there is. |
Let me make a football analogy. McCain has basically clinched the division and will have bye weeks up until the superbowl.
Obama and Hillary are slugging it out just to get into the playoffs. But because of that, they will have been battletested and drilled and attacked and point-counterpointed that by the time someone wins, the nominee will have a very solid plan worked out for the nation. Essentially, the nominee will have more practice defending his/her stance.
And since both know that McCain will be the Republican nominee, that gives Obama and Hillary all the more time to gameplan against him. McCain will have to prepare for both candidates at this point, since he won't know who his opponent will be in the general election.
