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February 6, 2008

My Super Tuesday Observations

I said I wasn't going to make any more political posts until Super Tuesday, and now Super Tuesday has come and gone, so here we are.

There was no big blowout on either side. Obama didn't make the knockout blow that he could have had he won California. This spared my neighbors the prospect of listening to me play the Obama Reggaeton song over and over again at high volume on my stereo.

Here are the big stories:

In favor of Clinton, Obama didn't give her a knockout blow. Obama really needed to parlay his momentum into an unequivocal win, and he couldn't do that. As it is, fighting Clinton to a draw simply favors the frontrunner, and Obama loses in that scenario, being the Gary Hart to Clinton's Walter Mondale. If Ohio and Texas play out the same way for Clinton as California did, it's all over for Obama, and this hard-fought primary race will be remembered as just a side-show.

On the other hand, Obama has moved his South Carolina and Missouri staffs to Ohio and Texas, putting a lot of boots on the ground in order to do what his campaign does best: organize voters and boost turnout to drive him to victory. Plus, Obama has raised almost $6 million just on Wednesday. Clinton, meanwhile, had to loan her campaign money for the next month while her staffers are voluntarily going without pay. Next week, Obama is favored to win at least 2 of the 3 primaries in Maryland, DC, and Virginia.

Personally, I'm a bit skeptical of Obama's chances. Clinton's built-in base is huge, and the candidate who gets her base almost always wins the nomination, and she proved her formidability on Tuesday, turning back strong challenges by Obama in Massachusetts and California and crushing them. If she does the same in Ohio and Texas, she wins, and the thing is that she probably will win if she just treads water. It would take an implosion of her campaign of catastrophic proportions for her to lose Ohio and Texas.

Most importantly, one reason that Obama is likely to lose -- or even why he should lose -- is as a means of giving those who express such youthful idealistic enthusiasm about his candidacy a necessary growing experience. You see, as a veteran of the Howard Dean campaign, I know what it's like to watch an insurgent campaign full of youthful enthusiasm get stamped under the boot-heel of establishment support and skepticism of the aged. It was one of those formative experiences that have helped me evolve into the cynical cranky old man that I am today and allows me to really appreciate a certain amount of Machiavellian viciousness in my candidates. Sure, I like Obama, but I'd hate to see all of his young volunteers miss out on what it's like to have their dreams squashed like a bug.

Posted by Dean at February 6, 2008 11:45 AM

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