THE CANCER KILLING PDCOM - Blow-by-Blow Coverage of Democratic Primary Race

[East Coast Hustle]

Bill Clinton, of course.

especially since a federal judge just ruled that nothing in the Constitution would prevent him from being her Veep.

[Cain]

Funnily enough I was thinking about that just the other day...

How perfectly hideous.

[AFK]

It won't be Lieberman, he's publicly said he won't be a VP candidate.  Granted the question to him was whether or not he'd be McCain's mate, but he was ruling out the idea in general as well. 

[AFK]

To continue that thought, if she were picking from some of the others who ran but dropped out, I'd think Bill Richardson would be on the list.  He would help sure up the Hispanic vote.  Also maybe Joe Biden.  And they were sitting next to each other at the Bush State of the Union speech. 

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Well, I'm not happy with any of the options, but I really think I could stomach voting for McCain or Obama, even though they both have different political views (well, we assume Obama has political views ). However, both of these men seem likely to try to work with both parties and after 16+ years of half the country hating the President, I'd kind of like having a president most people could deal with. I mean I'm not sure if the blogosphere could survive not having American fratra-hate to live on, but oh well.

[AFK]

So, from what I hear, it appears Ron Paul is most likely going to win the Maine Republican Caucuses and get all of its Delegates.  Of course we have squat for delegates, but he'll at least have one small victory to brag about.  We are the same state that gave Perot his one and only Electoral vote the first time he ran.  Just goes to show how weird things can be up here. 

[Cramulus]

So, from what I hear, it appears Ron Paul is most likely going to win the Maine Republican Caucuses and get all of its Delegates.  Of course we have squat for delegates, but he'll at least have one small victory to brag about.  We are the same state that gave Perot his one and only Electoral vote the first time he ran.  Just goes to show how weird things can be up here. 

say what you will about the guy, but I'm glad he's gonna get at least one state.

[Cain]

Yay, go Maine!  Stick it to the Reptilian/Illuminati/International Banker/Zionist/Satanist/Socialist Conspiracy!  KICK EM IN THA NADS!

[AFK]

The woman in charge of the Republican Caucuses doesn't sound to be too pleased with this development.  (My guess is she's a Romney supporter).  Apparently Ron Paul has some real solid operations in states like Maine where the frontrunners really aren't spending any time or money on.  He even brainwashed (just kidding everyone, don't freak out) my brother into volunteering for him.  We've got a lot of Libertarians here and even a good chunk of the Republicans tend to hate the more establishment-type candidates. 

[Diseris]

Yeah, I heard that theory last night as well.  It's essentially become everybody against Mitt Romney. 

And also, I'm interested in y'alls theories as to why Ron Paul is still in the race.  I tend to think he must have enough common sense to know he has no shot.  So what does he gain by staying in?  Any theories?

Think he could maneuver himself into a  VP spot on the ticket with the threat of pulling a Ralph Nader and splitting the GoP?  Pulling 5% of the popular vote could be a real blow in the general election.

There is also some low voter threshold for getting paid out of the national election fund (the check box on your tax form), so he might be after that as well.

It could be an interesting gun for him to use to get some third party recognition, even if it is under the GoP banner.

[AFK]

VP spot?  I think McCain would sooner pick Obama to be his running mate before he picked Ron Paul. 

[Cain]

Agreed.  I think Ron Paul is going to try and create a Libertarian/Republican split using his popularity and lead his followers back to the Chosen Land - that is the political wasteland of the Libertarian Party.

[Diseris]

A split will give the election to the Dems.

A vote against Paul for VP might well be a vote for Hillary or Obama.

Running the libertarian party again will only put more distance between mainstream GoP and the Libertarians, look how much good the green party got from Nader's run, practical non-existence.

[Cain]

Yeah, but if they were smart, they wouldn't be in with the Libertarian party in the first place.

[AFK]

Eh, I don't think either the Libertarian or Green parties will ever have any significant play in American politics outside of the odd-ball state like mine.  Third-party candidates, no matter the party, are always little more than a novelty when it comes right down to it.  Even Bloombers would've been relegated to that same status.  It's going to take a really convincing, charismatic, and engaging figure as a third-party candidate to make any headway in that respect.