Democratic primaries could finally yield results

Author: Jonathan Young

With a major milestone possibly being reached today in the US democratic presidential race - a majority of the pledged delegates going for one of the democratic candidates - maybe we can start concentrating on what a presidential race is supposed to be about: politics and helping the country. The political battle which has been going on between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton since January of this year has sucked away millions of dollars in campaign support and “helped” make the Democratic Party look to a large part of the world as a bunch of bickering neighbours.

Living in Germany it is a bit more difficult for me to get the entire story as I am picking my information from the Net. The local talk of friends, colleagues at work, at the supermarket or in a bar is just different than having the same experience in the States. But it is still a ridicoulous picture which has been painted about the machinery behind US politics and especially elections. Over here, we can just about only shake our head in disgust about the money wasted to try and “buy” a vote. And then you have to listen to the plans of distorted smiling politicians to help the normal American citizens in health care and what not. Why not just take all of those millions and invest them into a program for the needy IN AMERICA????? I am not even going to start on the infamous Iraq war and the billions wasted for a war with only one cause. And all of the new plans for either keeping the troops there or when they will be moved out again. Sorry, I’m drifting from the subject here….

Back to the Democratic Presidential race: Barack Obama will most likely be able to get the majority of delegates needed this Tuesday in the primaries in both Kentucky and Oregon even though Clinton will most likely take most of Kentucky. Obama had 1,915 delegates to Clinton’s 1,721 going into Tuesday’s primaries in which 103 delegates are at stake in the two states. By early Wednesday, Obama could be just 50 to 75 delegates short of the total 2,026 needed to nominate a candidate at the party’s national convention in Denver in late August.

This does not seem to be doing anything to Hillary Clinton’s determination to fight it out till the end of the primary run which will last into early June most likely pushing her and family even further into debt and giving the Repubican presidential candidate John McCain the possibility to work on his political arguments against the Democratic team. He is already targeting Obama as the likely candidate for the November election.

I am just hoping for the US voters that they listen carefully in the next few months to the promises and plans of all candidates as I myself have no idea who has the best program for leading the US out of its national and foreign political dead-end which was created in just 8 years of ridiculous political mayhem by some cowboy…ummmhhh, I mean President. To round this up Obama holds the lead over Clinton in the Gallup Poll, 55 percent to her 39 percent. The poll was conducted among 1,261 Democratic voters and has a 3 percentage point margin of error. Back in mid-January, Clinton held a 20 percentage point lead in the Gallup Poll. Amazing how big of a change can occur in just a few months…