Going into the third quarter, it's a tie

Submitted by lambert on Tue, 2008-03-25 23:49.

I really have to repeat what Kevin Drum said here, just to dispose of the WWTSBQ nonsense that the math dictates on Obama win:

I don’t think people really appreciate the uniqueness of what’s going on here: there are two Democratic candidates who are almost precisely tied. They’ve won nearly equal numbers of delegates; they’ve won nearly equal portions of the popular vote; and for two nearly two months straight they’ve polled within three or four points of each other. Two months! All this new information, all the spitballs, all the ads, all the spin, and both candidates have held on to almost precisely the same level of support they had right after Super Tuesday. That’s remarkable.

There’s no need to make this more complicated than it is. The Democratic Party has two candidates with almost eerily similar levels of support, and that support is deep and strong for both of them. That’s a recipe for a long campaign season no matter what the primary schedule looks like.

Yep.

How about we give the voters their say?

Including the ones in FL and MI?

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Yet not eerily similar levels of fundraising

Submitted by ribonucleic on Wed, 2008-03-26 00:15.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/…

Check out....

Submitted by A. Citizen on Wed, 2008-03-26 01:23.

http://opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?…

Dig around that site. Fascinating how a newbie Senator suddenly has lots and lots and lots of friends.

Friends with $$$$$$$$$$$$!

A. Citizen

Peace, Health and Prosperity for Everyone.

Money Mystery

Submitted by koshembos on Wed, 2008-03-26 05:39.

If one candidate represents the affluent and the other represents the poor guess who will have more money? If one represents investment bankers, what a lovely lot, and one represent regular companies guess who will have more money.

You just read that both candidates have equal support. Obama is the candidate of the haves an Hillary is the candidate of the haves not.

and making it even more simple:

Submitted by chicago dyke on Wed, 2008-03-26 08:46.

speaking for MI: there’s no truly “fair” solution, so seat all the MI delagates, and allot them according to the number of votes HRC got in MI, with the rest split between BHO and Edwards in a manner that reflects what they both have by the time of the convention (or based on exit polls of the uncommitted, i don’t care which). That way at the very least one can argue that the will of the people at the time they voted is (sort of) reflected. DK and Gavel were in it, but DK has instructed his supporters to go for BHO iirc, and Gavel is statistically insignificant.

nice job on kevin, for a change. KISS is always a good rule of thumb.