Remember John McCain?

I think a lot of people may have trouble remembering that this election isn’t just between Hillary and Obama. It will eventually come down to a Democrat and a Republican fighting for the White House. The problem right now is that we have two Democrats fighting for the White House, and a Republican waiting in the background for them to finish things up. I doubt that he is too bitter about this, though, because the longer they fight it out, the better his chances for victory in November become.

If Obama becomes the nominee, he will have to quickly begin to persuade Hillary’s supporters to accept him or he won’t have a chance this fall. The same goes for Hillary if she becomes the nominee. McCain has had to do the same thing in the Republican field. He has been trying to gain the acceptance of voters who previously favored any number of the other Republican contenders for the presidency we’ve seen this year. Since he has emerged as the nominee, however, he has an abundance of time to suck-up to everybody before the Democrats have even figured out who their candidate is. Whoever eventually becomes the Democratic nominee will have to find out if they still have enough suck-up time before November to beat McCain.