Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama: Of the two, who do you like?

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Originally Posted by Travis

I’m no political expert by any means and I can’t recall the order of the states won by each Obama and Clinton in the past few months but I remember reading an article after Obama had won 10 or maybe it was 11 straight wins in a row. The article went on to say which states would be won by each candidate and that Clinton would ultimately get the nomination. Again, not an expert but the states that the article predicted that Clinton would win she has in fact won so … maybe there is hope for Clinton yet.

It's not really about how many states you win as much as it is which states you win. And in general, Obama has won the sparsely populated, predominantly Republican states via caucuses, which are a complete joke and should be eradicated; caucuses heavily favored Obama. In states like Idaho, I think there were something like 5,000 caucus voters, or something ridiculously small like that. So by combing a few college campuses and bussing them in, Obama racked up huge numbers via the college students who had lots of free time to participate in the time-consuming caucus process, which discourages the participation of people who, um, actually have to work for a living. And it's quite telling that Hillary won the Texas primary decisively, yet lost the Texas caucus for the same reason. And then you have caucus states like Minnesota that went heavily for Obama, which, it should be noted, also elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura as their governor. The fact remains that Obama only won 2 large states and eked out a slight edge in one battleground state (Missouri). Hillary won all of the major large states and almost all of the battleground states by decisive margins; polls in those key battleground states are currently favoring her in the presidential election vs. McCain. This leaves me dumbfounded as to why superdelegates are not backing the candidate who can deliver the White House in November. I know there are many who hate Hillary, but as far as I am concerned, a superdelegate vote for Obama is a vote for McCain. They may as well already start printing up President McCain's Oval Office stationary now.