The results from Super Tuesday is in. Twenty-four states, 1681 delegates for the Democrats, and 1,020 delegates for the Republicans and the Presidential picture remains as murky as ever. Clinton holds a narrow lead over Obama but he continues to close in. McCain remains the strong front runner, Romney is in second and Huckabee is nipping at his heals. Basically between Monday and today, nothing has really changed. For once, every state is going to be important in deciding the nominees rather then just a few. It cannot get better then a close election right up to the conventions.
Thanks to Rocketboom, you can see why people make fun of people in Tennessee and Alabama as their though processes in deciding who to vote for is sad, mis-informed and pretty pathetic. With the advent of the internet, there is no excuse for not being aware of at least some of the facts about the various candidates. Sadly, the lack of though is share by the children. Watch the video here.
To a degree the rise and fall of candidates can be seen by how much time the media decides to give them. For reasons I don't understand, the media feels its job is to tell a "story" and they are willing to manufacture "truths" they need to in selling that story. Personally I would rather have facts. The ability to tell a story seems to tie directly into how much coverage a candidate gets. The more coverage, the better for the candidate. Thanks to this site, there is a nifty series of charts that show just how much coverage the various candidates are getting and its interesting to see. Basically those the press feels have a chance to win, get more coverage, which gives them a better chance to win, which gets more coverage, which well you get the cycle. If you name isn't Clinton, Obama, or McCain, your kind of screwed because you don't help in the "story" of the '08 election.
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