Indiana

[Xenu]

On pins and fucking needles.

[Bennett Cerf]

So when's she going to quit?

[Rspaight]

I doubt she'll get out before the 20th. She's going to win WV and KY big, so it doesn't make sense for her to get out before those are over. (Besides, it'll just make Obama look bad to be the newly crowned nominee and then lose two primaries.)

My guess is soon after the 5/20 primaries. (5/20 is also when most people seem to think Obama will have the pledged delegate race locked up.) Which means I'll get to vote in a contested presidential primary for the first time in my life.

[Bennett Cerf]

So if it's not too personal a question, how are you going to vote?

[Rspaight]

There's not a whole lot of difference on substantive issues. Obama has the advantage of not having voted for the war, but he wasn't in the Senate at the time so it's not really a fair comparison. I think he's right to call the gas tax holiday a gimmick, even more so since there's no chance of it happening. But overall they're more alike than different. So it really comes down to the candidates themselves.

Obama has irked me in the past with his awkward embrace of "ex-gay" ministers, but he's been pretty impressive otherwise. I appreciate his no-bullshit approach to many questions.

Clinton, on the other hand, is just one pander after another. Her quixotic insistence that Florida and Michigan were some sort of legitimate contests that were being suppressed, her cozying up to various right-wing mouthpieces, her cheerleading for nuking Iran, and even just this past week her desperate claims that she could win the "white" vote are all things I'd rather not endorse.

So I'll be going with Obama. Even though Clinton is going to carry this state without breaking a sweat. Oh, well, status quo for me.

[Xenu]

Status quo indeed. Most. Anticlimactic. Primary. Ever!