I'm calling Clinton/Obama vs Huckabee/McCain as the final configuration. This has far more to do with narrative causality than polling.
On the Democratic side, Clinton has the money, the machine and the experience. Obama will contribute his aura of youth and "change", and will be seen as a "president-in-training", giving the Dems an illusion of depth and legacy potential. Also, he's assassination insurance for Hillary: nutjobs who'd want to kill her would be even more opposed to a black man as President. Edwards is too dull, and carries with him the whiff of past losses.
Huckabee/McCain is a harder call, but Huckabee is affable, experienced and has the backing of the faithtards religious right. McCain appeals to the more secular side of things, and they both agree on certain fundamental values, like "torture is bad", which the other Republican candidates apparently have trouble understanding.
Giuliani is a fear-mongering fascist, which is going out of style, and Romney is so unmemorable that I had to check a website to recall his name, as well as having the "weirder by God than me" factor.
And the most compelling logic of all: I'd love to see those teams campaign against each other, particularly because some issues would be right off the table, and whoever won the election, the next occupant of the Oval Office would never wake up wondering, "Who would Jesus torture?"
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On the Democratic side, Clinton has the money, the machine and the experience. Obama will contribute his aura of youth and "change", and will be seen as a "president-in-training", giving the Dems an illusion of depth and legacy potential. Also, he's assassination insurance for Hillary: nutjobs who'd want to kill her would be even more opposed to a black man as President. Edwards is too dull, and carries with him the whiff of past losses.
Huckabee/McCain is a harder call, but Huckabee is affable, experienced and has the backing of the
faithtardsreligious right. McCain appeals to the more secular side of things, and they both agree on certain fundamental values, like "torture is bad", which the other Republican candidates apparently have trouble understanding.Giuliani is a fear-mongering fascist, which is going out of style, and Romney is so unmemorable that I had to check a website to recall his name, as well as having the "weirder by God than me" factor.
And the most compelling logic of all: I'd love to see those teams campaign against each other, particularly because some issues would be right off the table, and whoever won the election, the next occupant of the Oval Office would never wake up wondering, "Who would Jesus torture?"