John McCain won.............but not quite. Hillary Clinton won.................but not quite: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/delegate_counts.html. Both frontrunners maintained their frontrunner status, but didn't or couldn't close the deal. In fact, Super Tuesday provided some surprises, with the unexpected revival of Mike Huckabee's campaign in the U.S. south, and the surprisingly narrow nature of Hillary Clinton's triumph(s) over Barack Obama virtually everywhere. If John McCain goes on to capture the Republican nomination, it will represent a stunning repudiation of the numerous talking heads who have done nothing but trash him since his campaign revived itself with a win in the New Hampshire primary. Of course, that will leave those same pundits with little choice but to continue their verbal assault on him, if only to validate their preconceptions about how horrible he is.
On the Democratic side, Barack Obama stubbornly refuses to go away. Even I'm starting to think that he might be able to derail the Hillary Clinton express, and if so, I think that he might be virtually unbeatable in November no matter who the Republican nominee is. There is no question that he is by far the best orator among the candidates on either side of the political aisle. I still don't think that he's said a single thing of substance yet, and if he captures the Democratic nomination, he will be forced to offer SOME specifics about what he stands for and what he wants to do. Until then, however, he can and will sway everyone with his eloquence.
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