Well some of my predictions came true yesterday in Florida. Rudy Guilani, aka "America's Mayor" took home only 14.6 % of the Republican vote while John McCain won with 36.0 %. Mitt Romney, the perenial runner up garnered 31.1 % of the Republican vote. What does this mean? It means that Rudy's "let it all ride on Florida" strategy failed. How do you ignore the primaries leading up to Florida? I just can't understand the logic behind it. With this loss Rudy is pulling out of the race and expected to endorse McCain. Is there anyone out there that actually endores Romney? So now the Republican field is effectively narrowed down to 2 people, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Mike Huckabee is still in the race, but at this point all he can really do is hurt Romney, which he seems to enjoy doing. In the Democratic field as I also expected, John Edwards is pulling out of the race. I think he has more or less run out of money and he shouldn't be in the race any longer since he didn't win his home state of South Caronlina. I'll be very interested to see who he endorses because it will factor into his being a viable candidate for Vice President. He probably has the most to gain by endorsing Hillary because she is fairly experienced, has slick willy to provide advice, and wants a VP that has broad appeal. Obama would be unlikely to select Edwards as his VP since Obama is fairly inexperienced and probably wants to have a VP that has more experience. Too bad he can't get Cheney as his VP. Now that would be very interesting.
Posted by troutm8 at January 30, 2008 10:53 AM