D-Day?

I take it today is like the main day in which the general public gets to vote for who you'd like to see running for the Democrat party in the Presidential elections in the US?

At least that's how the BBC are reporting it.

The Democrats, Clinton and Obama, are in the fight of their lives. Whoever wins the Pennsylvania Primary will probably be the Democratic choice for President. If Obama wins he will have a commanding lead over Clinton. If Clinton wins she will gain the lead over Obama.

It's been an ugly campaign with both political parties. It seems more like they have been bickering about he-said she-said mumbo jumbo crap instead of the actual issues these last several months. It's like a bunch of children arguing on the playground. This will be the first year I am actually old enough to vote for president, and honestly I'm not looking forward to it. Not a single one of the candidates looks like any good.

I refuse to vote for either of those idiots. I'll just wait until the main election and vote for McCain

I don't like them either, thank God I don't have to choose between one of them.

That's just like politics in general. Here in Scotland there are 3 main political partys where the two that are not in power just squable and complain about the stuff the party in power has done. It's funny because rightfully so the part in power is doing a good job and actually has improved in reputation as a result.

I wouldn't vote for a baby or anyone that acts like one in any election.

The Democrats are stupid having the public to vote on who they think should run for them. In theory it should be a good idea, but all it's doing is showing the divide the party has and boosting the chances on the Republicans on winning the election that actually counts.

What happens if McCain has a stroke before the election ?
He is kinda old afterall. That was actually my reason for wanting to vote for him when I read somewhere that Romney was going to be his running mate.

Then we should expect the next four years to be a nightmare.

That is how it works here. The Republicans have a bunch of people run for the chance of being the Presidential candidate and so do the Democrats. McCain beat out all of his competition early. Clinton and Obama have been duking it out and now we are down to the last 10 primaries to decide a victor finally.

Ah right, i just assumed it was a Democrat thing. It's just the way it's been this time i guess.

I've sort of had a small interest in American politics, but never really followed it as closely as i have done this time round.

A lot of times it is more of just a rivalry between one party and another. Most of the time if one group says something, the other group says the opposite just to spark a debate. It's all crap really. Having seperate political parties is good because it offers a better representation of the population, but the politicians have to remember that they are representing Joe Citizen and everyone else. Thats the biggest problem is that our politicians get way too far disconnected from the people who's lives they are affecting.

Exactly Kc0tma. I think you guys saw more of Gordon Brown when he was in America last week than we have since he became our Prime Minister last year.

Pennsylvania is the deciding factor. The Colbert Report had a special day about it yesterday

Sorry.....I don't know who Gordon Brown is. Maybe I should, but a few months ago I quit watching the big shot news channels (fox news, cnn, etc.), in fact, I got into the parental controls on my tv and blocked them out completely. I got pissed off about how they were making a big deal over which celebrities dated the other and stuff, and how so-and-so is in rehab, blah blah blah. There are more important things in life that the pop culture. I didn't even know the pope was in the US until Saturday, the day before he left, obviously I'm not a catholic. It seems like the mass media are responsible for all the bull *plum* with this presidential election. They've had such a huge influence over the debates and the candidates schedules and the fierce slander between each of them. It's just really disheartening.

Gordon Brown is the UK Prime Minister. He took control after Tony Blair stepped down last year. The public had no say on him being elected which has annoyed quite a few people.

To be honest, he's doing a poor job and seems to not really care about his future in the party or politics in general. He was in America last week meeting up with the Democrat candidates for no reason in particular while the UK (like many other countries) is going through a bit of an economic crisis thanks to this so-called "credit crunch".

At the time the country needs a prime minister he's making no public appearances to reassure the thousands of people who are struggling to make their Mortgage payments every month.

Personally i can't stand the guy. I wish someone would impeach him. He makes Tony Blair look good.