Democratic Divide

April 1, 2008

In case you’ve been traveling abroad for the past six months or working underground in some DUMP that you can’t talk about, the Democrats have a problem. The party is divided. Greatly! And the democratic divide seems to be getting wider by the week. One of the potential solutions really isn’t, at least not from my perspective and here’s why.

Al Gore?

Some people have recently trottted out the possibility of Al Gore or John Edwards stepping in as a compromise nominee to end the Obama-Clinton struggle. It’s all over for both of these men- at least as far as politics goes. Gore simply isn’t really believable any more with his global warming rants, and Edwards is really a Double A player at best.

And who’s going to settle the Florida-Michigan mess?

According to a recent Rasmussen Reports, when they asked Democratic Primary Voters about a three-way race including Gore, the former Vice President attracted less support than both Obama and Clinton. The national telephone survey of 423 Likely Democratic Primary Voters shows Obama attracting 42% support while Clinton earns 26% and Gore is the top choice for 23%. More specifically…..

>Among White Male voters, Obama leads Gore 40% to 33% while Clinton trails with just 18% support.
>Among White Women, it’s Clinton 37%, Obama 30%, and Gore 25%.
>Among African-American voters, it’s Obama at 70%, Clinton with 14%, and Gore barely registering at 5%.

Nix the Gore idea! Nix the Dream ticket idea too!

In fact, just let the two big guns duke it out. One of them is going to win even if they win ugly! As Hillary has said (and Obama agreed), let the remaining ten primary voters get their say and then let’s total things up come June 4th and declare a winner.

What the party really does need is an August decision to fix the democratic divide.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Election News

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