Super Tuesday

Well, Super Tuesday is coming to a close for the Democratic Party and with it, so appears to be several of the campaigns, at least on a practical level.

Kerry appears to have had another solid evening, winning Delaware, Missouri and Arizona pretty handily. Edwards took South Carolina, and is also showing strong in Oklahoma. North Dakota and New Mexico are both holding caucuses but no one really seems to be paying them too much mind.

Dean has once again failed to win anything. Lieberman bet it all on Delaware and appears to have come up snake eyes. Clark was respectable at least in Oklahome, and will likely officially take over the angry white man candidacy from Howie. Sharpton, well, Revrend Al showed miserably in South Carolina. Not good for the man who was betting it all on the southern minority vote.

Bottom line, Super Tuesday has functionally limited the field to Kerry, Edwards, and Clark as the dark horse outsider. Dean, Lieberman, Sharpton: all toast.

It will be interesting in watching the fight between Kerry and Edwards as it develops. Edwards is going to have to start tearing down the Kerry facade. Kerry is going to have to start defending and attacking against both Bush and Edwards. Watching them change their tactics which have worked well up until now should be fun.

I've said it many times before, and I'm going to say it again, Lieberman dropping out will be the greatest tragedy of the whole campaign. He was the most reasonable candidate the Democrats had. Watching Joe bow out with class and dignity was a definite contrast to the rest of the group. It is truly a disappointment.

Well, we've gone from 9 candidates to 3 real ones, one of whom is questionable. Next week we should get a couple more of official dropouts and possibly the functional elimination of Clark.

The field is narrowing and with the choices that are being made, so are the Democratic hopes of winning the Presidential election in November. This election may be one of the most clear deliniations between liberal and conservative that we've had in years.