Calling all Yanks in Ireland….
Tomorrow is the big day for Americans voting in the first stages of the Presidential election. It’s in Iowa, and voting there comes down to the strangely quaint, 18th Century confines of a Caucus: that is you declare your vote publicly. Indeed, if you are American (or even if you aren’t I guess), Richard Delevan has established the Ireland Caucus, so that denizens of our good isle can declare their intentions remotely. Voting ends at midnight our time, so that the Ireland Caucus will declare before Iowa! For a running commentary on events up to Super Tuesday, you can pick up Richard’s take on Brassneck.
‘T’is many a slip between the cup and the lip… and the better part of a year to go before the real dance…’
True in theory but in real life it won’t be the better part of a year before each party’s candidates will be known . Super Tuesday Feb 5th (22 states ) will probably determine which candidate will represent each party. Thereafter the choice of VP and keeping an eye on avoiding the proverbial political banana skins inevitable in a campaign of this length .
Huckabee will appeal to the evangelicals but beyond that it’s hard to see him winning a Prersidential election . If the Republicans are to have any chance it’ll come from McCain . Giuliani and Thompson are fading fast. Clinton, Obama or Edwards will be the next USA President -IMO
Most Americans are looking at what has happened to their country over the past 7 years . A million dead including 4,000 USA servicemen in Iraq , a destablised Pakistan , Afghanistan and Iran coming to the boil ? 100 dollars a barrel oil with a disappearing dollar ? Two million homes facing foreclosure with the only achievement of the ‘compassionate conservatives ‘ appearing to have achieved the highest level of infant mortality in the developed world , the most expensive health care coupled with the shortest life expectancy ? Come on lads the Republicans in the USA are more discredited than the British Tories were post Thatcher and Major ?