Down to the wire as Super Tuesday looms, and snow does, too

February 4th, 2008 at 10:35pm Chuck Sweeny

Super Tuesday beckons just a few hours away. Voters in the Rock River Valley should be able to escape the snowstorm, which, according to our WREX-TV partners, could give us as much as 13 inches of snow. But they said it won’t start until evening.

So, vote early and often if you can.

I predict that because of the way the Democrats apportion delegates — they don’t do a lot of winner take all — should mean that the Hillary vs. Barack race will go on, and on, and on, PERHAPS all the way to the Democratic Convention in Denver. If it gets that far, the Dems have these unelected “Super Delegates,” party leaders and fundraisers, who have more say than average, elected delegates, and they will decide the outcome. Not very democratic for a party that calls itself Democratic.

Clearly Obama has the momentum, the question is, did he get it in time? Remember, early voting in states like California — where 1 million have already voted — has been heavy. That will give Clinton reserve of votes, because her popularity has been coming down while his has been going up. That’s why for Obama it’s been all hands on deck in a massive voter turnout effort.

he opinion that John McCain will win Super Tuesday running away. The angry right wing has been pummelling McCain constantly, and I think that has done some damage to the Arizonan. This will benefit Mitt Romney. McCain will win the night, and maybe the nomination, but I’m not convinced the race will be over tomorrow night.

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