With the Republican race ending, there will be intense pressure to end the Democratic race.

[Renew Deal]

I think there will be intense pressure to end the Democratic race soon. Huckabee will take his best shot over the next few days. Barring major sweeping victories, it's over. This will make the DNC frantic to end the Democratic race. The DNC was able to muscle Edwards out. I bet they're going to be working all the angles to end the Dem race quick!

:dem:

[TexasObserver]

1. Hillary will bow out when she's ready to accept defeat

can't hurry her

[libertee]

6. bet she doesn't , no should she

[DaLittle Kitty]

12. Watch For All Kinds Of "DIRT" Now... As There IS Plenty To Air For Both... K&R

That's WHY We Should Have Had Edwards.... NO DIRT!

[cali]

15. pffft. there was a ton of ammunition against

Johny Hedgefund. And it was easy to frame and sell. But do continue your pitiful whining.

[Renew Deal]

16. The Edwards electability arguments have been unbelievable

And in the end, they were wrong. You realize that they would have used all the dirt they had by now don't you?

[libertee]

2. I SHOULD HOPE SO...we don't need a debacle of our own doing!

[libertee]

3. I SHOULD HOPE SO...we don't need a debacle of our own doing!

[GoldieAZ49]

4. McCain will start the GE campaign TODAY

Huck will probably be VP

while the Dems divide themselves between a candidate that will polarize the nation and one that will unite it.

Unbelievable!!!!!

[BlueManDude]

8. Conventional wisdom is sometimes wrong

I know it's supposed to be a good thing to nail down the nomination while the other guys are fighting it out but maybe this will turn out to be good for the Dems. Who knows.

[DaLittle Kitty]

13. Neither Unite... Both Polarize... BS and Insider Contacts Do NOT Win General Elections...

What a shame...... When WE Could have been truly transformational w/ Edwards......

[Renew Deal]

17. Edwards didn't win for a reason

No conspiracy involved.

[LoZoccolo]

5. I don't think so. Let them try to attack two people instead of one.

I think the uncertainty works to our disadvantage, especially since a lot of people like both candidates anyways.

[BlueManDude]

7. The conventional wisdom is that a long, drawn out bitter race

and perhaps a "brokered" convention hurts the party - but I see it as a good thing. The passion and intensity that the Dems are showing are what this country deserves - not the joke that was the GOP campaign of freaks and geeks.

The GOP strategy will be to hide McCain away as much as possible to cover for his physical and mental frailties and his lacklsuter speechmaking and reasoning skills. Ultimately he is all image and myth and a thoroughly unimpressive man - although I think he'll be the next president and win quite easily.

I hope Clinton and Obama fight it all the way to Denver. It may actually help the party in November by keeping the focus on the Dems while McCain nods off in the corner.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. No, it would be terrible

all the resources, money and time that could be used fighting McCain will be spent on internecine warfare. That's not good.

[GoldieAZ49]

11. correct

and both candidates will be worse for the wear

[DaLittle Kitty]

14. I Agree W/ Your Projected GE Outcome... No Rationale Available To Refute it!

[Renew Deal]

18. Going to the convention is a disaster.

It would prevent us from uniting and organizing against the republicans. McCain would have infrastructure everywhere and we would be dead.

[maddezmom]

9. I think you're correct

Democratic dead-heat 'not good news' says Dean
18 hours ago

NEW YORK (AFP) — Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday voiced concern over the prospect of a brokered convention at the end of the party's White House nominating contests.

"The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good scenario," Dean said according to excerpts of an interview with NY1 television.

In state nominating contests so far, no clear winner has emerged among Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the party's nomination ahead of November's presidential vote to replace George W. Bush in the White House.

"I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don't, then we're going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement," said Dean, who failed in his bid for the party's nomination in 2004.

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