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i am not particularly interested by either of the democrat candidates, but prefer obama to clinton.
in general, though, i think they're pretty close to interchangeable insofar as policy matters are concerned--so i don't see the contest between the two representing a particular ideological split within the democratic party, fantasies of the conservative press notwithstanding.
and i'm not terribly worried about the impact of a continued process--though i would prefer that the strategic objective of making sure that anything which enables the appalling prospect of another republican presidency be avoided take precedence over everything else.
i think that once the primary season is over, whenever that happens, and the press, lapdogs that they are, turn their collective attention to the actual election rather than focusing on the primaries as if there are a horse-race, which enables the generating of fake ups and downs and little fake crises in order to generate spectator interest in order to sell more advertising, the situation will turn quite grim for mccain.
polls at this point about potentials for a national election are meaningless.
i dont know why anyone pays attention to them.
and on an anecdotal level, i cannot imagine that there are many voters like pan, really, whose aversion to obama is such that they would throw their lot with an extension of the ongoing republican debacle. from where i've been and people i've talked to, i get the sense that folk are pissed and that they blame the republicans squarely almost all of it (and not the bush administration as some aberrant form of republican) and that the party is going to pay for the bush administration in the next election.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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