In Your Mind, Who Is The Current Frontrunner?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Poll question: In Your Mind, Who Is The Current Frontrunner?

Who's the person to beat right now?

Who's the hunted, as opposed to the hunter?

[andyrowe]

1. Fired Up!

Ready to go!

[terrya]

2. Neither

[ecstatic]

3. On a side note, I'm so grateful that Iowa and NH don't have the final say

this time around. I like both, but I don't ever want a situation where one, unrepresentative state tells the rest of us what to do.

[andyrowe]

4. I would like an exciting floor fight.

And maybe, just maybe a Gore/Obama ticket.

[SteppingRazor]

7. I think that would actually be very bad.

If we don't have a candidate going into the convention, and the nominee gets picked in the smoke-filled backrooms of yore, that candidate will lose a great deal of legitimacy. The only way a brokered convention is not a general-election killer is if the other side has one too.

[andyrowe]

16. So far that doesn't look to unlikely.

And it'd be insane.

[SteppingRazor]

5. It's actually a tougher question than it first appears.

Not counting the infamously fickle superdelegates, Obama's got more delegates than Hillary. So, just in measuring the race to this point, one would say Obama. But Hillary's up in the national polls and many of the state ones, so looking out in the long-term, it still looks like Hillary's the one to beat. And besides, counting superdelegates, she's still leading Obama.

[quinnox]

6. at this moment, Obama is clear frontrunner

The Kennedy endorsement was huge.

The frontrunner status could change after super tuesday though. (fingers crossed)

[onehandle]

8. If you're honest, it's Clinton.

We're talking about numbers, not your heart or current headlines.

Hillary is still ahead.

If you'd said heart, then Obama would be the honest choice here at DU


(Except that Edwards is still #1 at DU, but he wasn't in your poll.)

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. what numbers?

[onehandle]

15. She's still ahead in most state polls and has the most delegates.

This can change.

Super Tuesday is 24 states.

That's a pretty big number.

[harun]

21. She only has the most delegates if you include the Super Delegates

which can and will change their mind before the convention.

[onehandle]

22. And at the moment, she has them.

I look forward to them handing them over to Edwards in Denver.

:7

[harun]

23. I would like it if the Super Delegates (if we even have to have them)

would wait until at least say 50% of the states have had a chance to hold their primaries.

[sfam]

20. As an Obama supporter I agree

Clinton still has the lead in the polls and among super delegates. It will still be seen as a major upset if Obama ends up winning.

[rucky]

9. Both?

:shrug:

[sandnsea]

10. Hillary hasn't won the delegates in one state

And when the delegates are counted on Super Tuesday, people will see that delegates are what matters, state by state. Obama is the clear frontrunner, even without Teddy's endorsement.

[Medusa]

11. We're now referring to Edwards as Neither?

Gee, that must make his supporters feel good. :eyes:

[Kucinich4America]

13. I don't think anyone would consider Edwards the frontrunner at this moment.

Should be, yes. Is, unfortunately not.

[villager]

14. "I'm actually married to Barbara Mandrell...in my mind"

--Harry Dean Stanton, "Fool for Love"

[featherman]

17. Clinton is the establishment choice at this point and must be presumed

the front runner. Kennedy's endorsement may make inroads but Bill Clinton is a powerful figure in the Democratic party's back rooms where deals are cut. I know my state (CA) party chairman, Art Torres, has been bringing the full weight of our state organization to back Clinton

[DrFunkenstein]

18. Clinton, But Those Firewalls Keep Crumbling

She barely held on to New Hampshire and Nevada after GINORMOUS leads were whittled away to nothing. The same erosion is happening across the country. I only hope they collapse before the GOP gets ahold of her (and the White House).

[nosmokes]

19. Where's the Corporate Control box?n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

24. Neither