After months of campaigning and early primaries, TODAY primaries will be held in more than 20 states accross the country. This will decide the Republican and Democratic candidates for the General Elections to be held in November.
Here in the States the big issues defining the remaining candidates are Iraq, immigration, abortion, same-sex marriages, taxes and social security. With both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama positioning themselves as far left on the political spectrum as you can get, that leaves John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee as the conservative choices.
McCain is currently the Republican frontrunner in the polls, but appears to have very l
iberal views. He is advocating open borders, which implies that he does not condemn illegal immigration. Huckabee, the Christian conservative choice, is endorsing McCain, as he is to far behind in the polls, but rumor has it that he wants the Vice-Presidency. A deal seems to be on hand.And then there is Romney, himself a solid candidate. In the deep South, however, he is struggling for Christian conservative votes due to him being a Mormon. California will probably decide his fate.
You can follow the live updates online at www.cnn.com/POLITICS/
The following website supplies indepth info on each candidate: http://www.president08.net/
Interestingly, the very early results show that Obama is getting most of the black votes, while Hillary is getting a far superior number of the female votes. If I interpret this correctly, that means that women are voting for Hillary because she's a woman and black voters are voting for Obama because he's black! This then irrespective of their political stance on issues. ?!
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