Good Morning and welcome to the rest of our lives

[Perky]

Poll question: Good Morning and welcome to the rest of our lives

As I sit here nursing my first cup of coffee of the day and contemplating the next 12 hours or so, it occurs to me that this primary in a small New England state may well be epochal. Huge. Critical certainly to this election cycle; but also critical to the conduct of the war in Iras, the evolution of American Foreign Policy, the tackling of Global Warming, the Composition of the Supreme Court and so on. But perhaps no more important an issue than the purpling of America. (I appreciate the degree to which that is viewed by a large section of DU as sacrilege, but the progressive agenda can only be advanced through the crucible of politics and occasionally incrementaism)


It is not as though our leading candidates would govern all that differently as much as it the paths that gets each to the White House is so vastly different. The Democratic party has not enjoyed enjoyed a landslide election of a non incumbent since Roosevelt routed Hoover in 1932 when the country came together and said "enough is enough: to the the purveyors of the Gilded Age.

While the constellation of issues today are certainly different, no one should doubt that that the stars are not similarly aligned.

We need a president who can bring the nation together and give give us vision again,

It occurs to me that the outcome of this tilt in New Hampshire is pivotal to that process. A large victory by Obama could set the table for the nomination and the presidency. The Notion that a black Man could ascend to the presidency while giving hope for a new direction to all but the most ardent conservatives is an incredible opportunity to create both national reconciliation and new direction

The alternate path for the Democrats is one that leads to a bloodbath of acrimony and division all the way to Denver leaving a scorched base angry and divided.

I am not suggesting that Mrs. Clinton want that for the party or the country, but she would do well to co sider the potential outcome. An ugly primary season, a brokered convention, embittered elements of the big tent and should she win the nomination....a very ugly fall campaign that might lead to victory...but certainly will not lead to a landslide victory.

A landslide victory on the other hand has the potential to expose the deep and tectonic fractures points within the GOP, from which they might never recover and thus install a working democratic majority that might last a generation or more.

Our future begins today and if the polls are right the Clintons and Mr. Carville should understand the implications of what it is going to take to win the nomination if they can not win in either Nevada or SOuth Carolina,

[Perky]

1. .The point was that the Rumors of a Negative Campaign by the Clintons is not what the Party needs

Or the country either.

[Ninga]

2. What is your practical political experience that leads to this conclusion? I am serious in

asking.

[Perky]

4. .

Veteran of muliple political campaigns. Paid mid-level staffer on three Presidential campaigns. Four years as a congressional aide. Focused of the last ten years on voter registration efforts. But inactive this cycle due to young kids and a spouse in substandard health

[Ninga]

3. dupe - sorry

[Perky]

5. I will never understand the mind of DU

What people respindto and what they don't.....lol