by Tom Ontis

Created on: March 31, 2008

Who will win in Denver? Only the super delegates know. With the chance that either Senator will win with the remaining primaries and caucuses appearing more and more remote everyday, the super delegates will call the shots. If these 700+ 'party leaders' decide to nominate Senator Clinton based on her being the ultimate insider, the Republicans will laugh all the way to the Electoral College. They will play up the Democratic Party not being democratic at all (note the lower case 'd,') but in the hands of the 700 out of around 4,500 delegates, about 16% of the total, or about 31% of what is needed to secure the nomination.

However if the 'sd's' throw most of their numbers of Senator Obama, the neophyte on the national scene, they will be doing the will of the people (Democrats,) because they were following the lead of their party members. I know from watching the news, reading some publications and just knowing politicians, they practice a unique brand of self importance and a 'know-it-all' attitude when setting public policy.

I see somewhat of a floor fight benefiting Democrats. What? Though it is traditional that the opposite party does not do much campaigning during the week of the other party's convention, the Democrats will be in the spotlight, contrasted to the Republican convention a few weeks down the road, which will be a staid, rehearsed scenario in which Ronald Reagan's name will be perched up on a pedestal, they thinking he is even in the same league as FDR. (And, no, he didn't win the Cold War.) Yawn and 'Let's go to bed honey."

Though there hasn't been a real floor fight in either party since 1968 (Humphrey/McCarthy-Democrats and Nixon/Rockefeller/Reagan-Republicans,) this will be a real barn burner. Denver is a good place, because it represents the 'new' Democrats, that are slightly more conservative than their brethren on either coast. The the plain states hold few electoral votes, as a bloc, they can sway an election.

I am not here to sway anyone and vote for either candidate. The bottom line is to put a Democrat back in the White House after the 8 year debacle of Bush/Cheney/Rove and DeLay.

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