Ye, There Will Be Blood, but on the other hand, it could also work to our advantage. Just think, Republican thing is over by the end of Feb. Media coverage of McCain lessens, if not disappearing altogether. Meanwhile, Obama and Billary are in the news every day through - what, April 22? (the Pennsyltucky scenario), perhaps even later. This could serve dems well especially if, in the end, they kiss and make up (a ticket together).
That, and we'll get to see Obama (and hottie wife Michelle) in every diner in philly, montco, delco, bucks and berks. Screw Jersey.

People are already turned off by the sniping between parties, so I can only imagine how apathetic they'll become if this goes on too long between Barak and Hillary.

Bob, I can't disagree with you more. Within the next 2-3 weeks we'll have a better idea of who the nominee will be and judging by the amount of money raised, enthusiam he generates, and what I predict will be the continuation uptrend in polls, Obama will be the nominee.

McCain's pro war stance is in opposition of 70%+ of the voters. His "moderatation" is so abhorrent to the GOP base, that Limbaugh and Coulter are vehemently against him, the latter saying she would campaign for Clinton, for Christ's sake! The backbiting by the GOP candidates is much worse that what's happening on the Democratic side and GOP voters are so discouraged, their voting numbers are 25% of what the overall Dem numbers are.

I think panicking this early is a mistake.

Every time I try to consider what BO or HRC will do if the race continues to be close, it gets too tangled in my brain. I just can't suss it out.
I can't see her conceding anything unless the numbers are lopsided. If they are close, she'll keep fighting to get Michigan and Florida seated at the convention, pointing out to everyone how she "won" those delegates. Even if the DNC steps in, I just can't imagine them having much influence on her campaign. Even if she's low on cash, she still has more than John McCain.
It's going to take a few more big wins for Barack Obama for her to see the picture. She won't back down. She's not concerned about fracturing the Democratic Party because in their view, Bill and Hillary Clinton ARE the Democratic Party.
On a different note, when I caucused here in Denver last night you would have thought it was an Obama rally. We almost felt bad for the Hillary supporters. All ten of them, in my precinct at least.
It was Goddamn Awesome.

Sorry for the typos in the above post.

Hey Carl... But I *agree* with you. It's too early to freak out -- now. I did, however, write that if this thing is still too-close-to-blah-blah by Summer (May for example)... we're in trouble. Summer is when we panic. Hopefully someone (voters, candidates, party) will blink before then.

Hey Bob, I do believe there's cause for concern if it does drag out that long, but to have the perception out there, as Krugman did a few days ago, that it will sink us is something I don't adhere to. It also gives the GOP and wingnuts something they can latch onto before it's an issue.

Don't know what's happening with Romney today, and it does look like McCain will run away with it, but Huckabee's not going anywhere until the deciding delegate is cast and in my opinion, their fighting has been much more harmful to them than our side's differences have been to us.

Thanks.

This probably isn't the perfect place for this comment, but Carl mentioned Huckleberry, and I wanted to ask: is anyone here an SF fan? There's an older book called "If This Goes On" or alternately "Revolt in 2100", by Robert Heinlein. In it, the US is ruled (not governed) by a theocracy headed by a man named Nehemiah Scudder. Not to go into too much detail, but Huckleberry is close enough to this guy for it to be really creepy to think about him in charge of anything.

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