Jan 25 2009
Relocated: The General Election
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The General Election
My personal opinion, the general election should be quite interesting. Right about now, it looks like it will be McCain and Obama. What’s going to be interesting about this is the independents, and how they factor in to the election.
Both Obama and McCain have shown an ability to draw in independent voters. Think way back to when nobody thought either one, much less both, would be doing particularly well. The one big wildcard in the early, open primaries was not whether Dems would vote for Hillary or Obama, or whether the Republicans would vote for Mitt or Huckabee. It was actually whether the independents or weakly identified partisan voters would vote in the Democratic primary for Barack or in the Republican for McCain.
The general election should be interesting. Although unidentified voters in open primary states have already had to decide which primary to vote in, in the many states where primaries are not open, they have not had to think about this. Which raises the question of, come November, when they do, what wil happen? And will the polls in the General be as awful as some of the polls in the primaries? Only time will tell.
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