The weekend's contests
On the Dem side, a sweep for Obama, which at this point isn't really a surprise anymore. The real question now is whether Clinton's focusing on the big-state primaries of Texas and Ohio on March 4th while all but conceding all the remaining, smaller primaries preceding them will be as successful as Guiliani's Florida strategy was. Of course, now that she's fired her campaign manager, maybe she'll find a way to win something, anything, in between and keep the race from looking like a runaway.
On the Republican side, the race is over, supposedly, but the fight clearly isn't. The presumptive nominee McCain lost both Kansas and Louisiana, earning only a somewhat weird victory in Washington. Maybe.
The base appears highly reluctant to fall into line on this one, and Huckabee is the beneficiary of those feelings. Worse for McCain, anything he does to court his party's base, damages his reputation as a moderate.
Somehow, despite the battle for a nominee, the Democrats still appear united. (So far, anyway.) The Republicans, on the other hand, are still very much fractured despite having a presumptive nominee.
It is a curious dynamic, and as a political junkie, I must admit to looking forward to seeing how it plays out over the next month or so.
