Thursday, January 31, 2008

Gravelmania

Two left. I never thought any of the "others" - Kucinich, Biden, Richardson, Dodd - had any serious kind of chance, though I figured Edwards would stay in until the end. Not a crazy idea given that he said he was going to, but whatever.

A woman or an African-American man will be the Democratic nominee. As is the case with such firsts it's rather important that whoever it is succeeds or it'll be a hell of a long time before there's a second. It puts some additional pressure on the candidates to win this thing.