America knows drama!

I should have made a post about it so the time stamp would have been evidence of my prediction. I've have a couple eye witnesses though that I gave this prediction though (for whatever thats worth). My prediction was with Romney out of the race, Huckabee may do significantly better than McCain in the coming primaries. Yesterday's primaries proved me right. CNN reported many times last night that it is almost mathematically impossible for Huckabee to win the election now, to which he responds (multiple times yesterday), “Folks, I didn’t major in math. I majored in miracles and I still believe in miracles.” If he does win, I may be saying bye bye to Catholicism and hello Baptism because he is obviously doing something right. Regardless, I've developed a serious case of the Underdogies (kind of like having a case of the Sillies or the Clumsies) and I'm routing for him.

On the Democratic side, its still a slight case of the people versus the party. As of noonish today, here's the superdelegate and pledged delegate predictions:

Clinton - Pledged: 885
Clinton - Superdelegates: 223
Obama - Pledged: 918
Obama - Superdelegates: 131

Obama leads by 33 votes made by the people and Clinton leads by 92 votes made by the party. This still doesn't say that Superdeletages are necessarily not voting with the people, Clinton may have just won states that just had a higher percentage of its votes consist of Superdelegats and I'm not not curious enough to backtracking through all of Super Tuesday to see just what happened. However, the numbers do suggest that the party is straying away from the people's choice. CNN reported last night (yeah I watched the news a lot yesterday) that Superdelegates were originally created to keep the primaries from being ridiculous (lets not forget that Stephen Colbert tried to join the race on his show at one point and I for one would have welcomed the Superdelegates if he succeeded), but they also argued last night that they might be making the situation worse!

To top that off, the Clintons are making an effort to get Michigan and Florida to count for the Primary! When it becomes DNC time, they are going to make a legal effort to get these votes to count. If this happens, its an injustice! Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan because he choose to save campaign funds instead of showboating. Clinton opted to go showboating and won both these states (Obama was on the ballot in Florida) that had lost their delegates. I hadn't noticed this before, but if you look at the primary results (from the Associated Press) at the bottom of this blog you'll notice something shocking. Michigan and Florida were previously in possession of a HUGE number of delegates! Michigan was entitled to 156 and Florida 210, making up 8.3% of the Nation's delegates. That is a huge chunk that Clinton will try to get activated at the end of the election that most of the candidates were told didn't matter. There was some talk about having a do-over in those states, but elections cost money, and a lot of it. Plus since Clinton pushed to have these state's voices heard, she will probably have earned an advantage among the people if the do-over came to pass.

This election just keeps getting better and better. The watching the general election will be like, well like watching the news by comparison.