Outcome already decided?

Today, at roughly 12 PM, in a press conference, top strategist Mark Penn just claimed that Hillary Clinton would be a better commander-in-chief than both Barrack Obama and John McCain. Later on, at 1:55 PM, on National Review Online, Larry Kudlow concluded that it was over for Clinton. She was terminated brutally by Obama in Wisconsin and possibly in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania too. In the article, Kudlow kept giving statistics after statistics, showing in concrete evidence how far left behind the Republican nominee was. Personally, I think the tone was a mixture of amusement and seriousness, as if the writer was treating this as a game that was better be taken seriously. Everyone seems to go with Obama, and the number of his white female voters even equals hers. I know that Obama has an advantage over Clinton since he does not have a husband – or wife in his case – who does not seem to be a lot of help lately, being harmful even; however, Clinton did not seem so bad and I did not expect her to lose badly like this. It seems that no matter what she does now, she cannot turn the table on Obama; in fact, the only thing she can do is withdrawing with grace before it gets even more humiliating. We now know the outcome of the primary before it ends. This is very different from how it is in my country, Vietnam. During many election years, the people are able to predict who would win but it is not because they are prophets or anything, but because there is only one party in Vietnam and many nominees, more often than not, are somehow related to those currently in power. Here in America, the system is more complicated yet simpler at the same time, ensuring a level of just and competitiveness in a presidential race. If the president ever turned out bad, the people could admit that it was their fault for voting for him or her, not some high-powers’ fault. It is reassuring.

Kudlow, Larry. “It’s Over.” National Review Online.

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