Presidential Primary Gut Check (worst case scenario)

[Perky]

Poll question: Presidential Primary Gut Check (worst case scenario)

SO ...I have been looking at what is now being dubbed as "super duper Tuesday" - February 5, 2008 -- Where as many of 25 states hold primaries. Clearly this is going to make the first contests all that more important..But everybody's crystal ball is murky at best on how Iowa, New Hampshire Nevada and South Carolina will go.

If there is no clear winner, then Super Duper Tuesday may be a "push" but only those with money would be able to continue to the last 20 or so primaries and we could be heading for a crazy convention.

The nightmare scenario is deadlock and multiple ballots and acrimony and a refusal to compromise and for example a showdown between Hillary and Obama on the fourth ballot. (Same could happen on the GOP side too).


SO here is the gut check. Let's say Hillary wins the nod but the general consensus is that she can not beat the GOP guy in November.

Could Obama launch an Independent run and made a strategic choice of an Anti-War republican as a running mate? Could you see yourself voting for such a ticket because you could never vote for HRC?

[w4rma]

1. I don't think Obama is very electable, either, in the general.

I think the Republicans would run a total smear and innuendo campaign in the last month and slaughter him. The good thing about him, though is that the Rethug base won't turn out as crazily as they would against Hillary so it won't hurt as much down ticket.

The only election Obama has been in was against an opponent who could literally be beat by a yellow dog.

I really don't want to watch Obama get totally smeared in October of 2008.

[OneBlueSky]

2. this all becomes moot as soon as Al Gore announces . . . but on the issue of bi-partisan tickets . .

I can't think of a better way of making the office of Vice President even more irrelevant than it already is . . .

[Perky]

3. I would hardly call the present occupant irrelevant

But in a cross ticket Independent bid you would have to make him irrelevant.

[bryant69]

4. If Obama ran as in independent in this situation it would prove

he's not worthy of being President.

Bryant
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