Is it all over next week if Kerry sweeps all the primaries?

[ringmastery]

If he wins South Carolina, Oklahoma, Missouri, etc.

[poskonig]

1. Yes.

That would just be too brutal.

[Zynx]

2. Yeah, but he won't. Atleast I hope not.

This primary season is worse than I could have possibly imagined.

[Cassandra]

11. Not all bad

consider the oodles of free publicity that Democrats are getting just because it's an exciting race. If it were wrapped up already, the media would get bored and go back to kissing *'s ass 24/7.

[bhunt70]

3. yeah most likely. but it's an unlikely prospect.

[spooky3]

9. I agree. Though I am surprised to see the Florida polling.

[mikehiggins]

4. Clark is in play in SC Edwards wins Strange Days Indeed eom

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. Even if he wins 4

it will be hard to make a credible case for someone else winning it.

[DjTj]

6. Yes, but he won't win South Carolina.

It will be interesting to see if Clark or Dean throw their efforts into a specific one of the other states.

[sandnsea]

7. He probably won't though

He probably won't take SC or OK. The rest are up for grabs though. We'll see how long Dean can go before doing something else stupid. Or whether the rest of the country is already fed up with him. Then the Clark & Edwards people may come together behind one of them. Lots of things can happen.

[if it comes from the whitehouse it must be true]

8. Those three in a row?

Stick a fork in every other candidate.

I dont think he will win S.C. but come in second to Edwards.

[SadEagle]

10. Likely, but I doubt that would happen...

.. But even if it did, one thing people sort of forget is that there is no winner-take-all at this point. i.e. look at NH -- a solid win for Sen.Kerry, and yet he gets 13 delegates vs. 9 for Dr. Dean. It's a bit hard to build a majority this way, so the tighter schedule giving more power to momentum is kindof counteracted by that. (And imagine a 25-20-20 finish -- the winner will get slightly over a third of delegates).

[Democrats unite]

12. You all need to come off of the cloud your on!

Next week Your going to see Kerry fighting for the front runner status & it ain't going to look pretty.

[freetempe]

13. Kerry won't sweep it next week.

SC is going Edwards.

OK, ND is going Clark

NM, AZ is going Dean

MO will go Kerry I think

It won't be even close to being over by next week.

[mmonk]

14. He won't sweep

It's going to be interesting to see the placements. Anyway, it will last longer.

[John_H]

15. Yep.

[ibegurpard]

16. It'll be all over for our chance to take the White House

IMHO