A.P. can be silly sometimes
January 25th, 2008 at 12:29pm Pat Cunningham
The Associated Press WANTS YOU TO KNOW that the presidential primary elections in 22 states on Feb. 5 (or Super Duper Mega Awesome Orgasmic Tuesday, if you will) “won’t decide nominations” in either party.
But that’s not necessarily true.
Granted, there aren’t enough delegates at stake on the big day to push any candidate completely over the top. That’s ”mathematically impossible,” as Steven Ohlemacher puts it in the wire service piece.”
But it’s still eminently possible that one candidate in either party could come out of the Feb. 5 balloting with a sizable lead in delegates and an irresistible momentum going forward on the campaign trail.
Let’s use a baseball analogy. If your team has an 18-game lead in its division going into the Labor Day weekend, it hasn’t yet clinched the title, but the smart money says it will. Even the dumb money says so.
The truth is that we might wake up on Feb. 6 to learn that the Republican or Democratic race has, in effect, ended. Maybe both of them.
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