Who will finally win the presidential election in 2008 remains a million dollar question indeed! Although the Republicans are already set with Senator John McCain as the contestant in the Presidential election in 2008, Democrats are yet to finalize their contestant. According to global media reports, Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton are leading neck-to-neck battle in winning the nominations from the Democrats in ultimately getting into the real battle of presidency. But, due to the ongoing battle between Senator Hillary and Barack Obama, there is no doubt that Democrats are very much leading with media coverage, while Senator McCain may be already busy in charging the spirits of his voters.
Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are all sitting senators, of Arizona, Illinois and New York, respectively. It is virtually certain the victor of the 2008 election will be the first sitting senator elected to the Presidency since John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election.
The United States presidential election of 2008, scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2008, will be the 56th consecutive quadrennial election for president and vice president of the United States. It will coincide with the 2008 Senate elections in thirty-five states, House of Representatives elections in all states, and gubernatorial elections in eleven states, as well as various state referendums and local elections.
As in the 2004 presidential election, the allocation of electoral votes to each state will be based partially on the 2000 Census. Currently, primary elections and caucuses are held in order to choose the candidates for each party. The president-elect and vice president-elect are scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
As this is incumbent president George W. Bush's second term, he is barred from running due to term limits in the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution. When a US President leaves office, his vice president is usually considered a leading candidate and likely nominee to succeed him. In 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney announced he would never run for president, a statement he reiterated in 2004.
In the three most recent presidential administrations featuring an outgoing two-term president — those of Eisenhower, Reagan, and Clinton — the incumbent vice president has immediately thereafter run for president. [Richard Nixon lost the 1960 election, George H. W. Bush won the 1988 election, and Al Gore lost the 2000 election.]
In the 1968 election, Lyndon B. Johnson initially decided to seek re-election. He entered the New Hampshire primary and won. However, he had a national poll conducted, which yielded results not in his favor. In a nationally televised speech, Johnson announced to the public that he would not seek re-election. Incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ran instead and was the eventual Democratic Party nominee.
During this period, several former vice presidents have sought the office of president as non-incumbents. Henry A. Wallace was the Progressive Party nominee in 1948. Nixon was elected in 1968. Walter Mondale received his party's nomination in 1984. Dan Quayle was unsuccessful in bids for nomination in 1996 and 2000.
Senator John Mccain:
John McCain, the senior American United States Senator from Arizona, staged his second candidacy for the presidency of the United States for the 2008 presidential election. His candidacy was in the works for a number of years, was informally announced on February 28, 2007 and was then formally announced on April 25, 2007. He emphasized that "America should never undertake a war unless we are prepared to do everything necessary to succeed."
Should McCain win in 2008, he would be the oldest person to assume the Presidency in history at initial ascension to office, being 72 years old and surpassing Ronald Reagan, who was 69 years old at his inauguration following the 1980 election. He has dismissed concerns about his age and past health concerns (malignant melanoma in 2000), stating in 2005 that his health was "excellent."[4][5] In the event of his victory in 2008, he would also become the first President of the United States not to be born within the United States (he was born in Panama within the Panama Canal Zone),[6] and the first sitting U.S. Senator since John F. Kennedy to win the presidency. He would also be the first president from Arizona.
McCain began the campaign as the nominal frontrunner among Republicans, with a strategy of appearing as the establishment, inevitable candidate; towards this end he made substantial overtures towards elements of the Republican base that had resisted his 2000 insurgency campaign. However, he soon fell behind in polls and fundraising; by July 2007 his campaign was forced to restructure its size and operations. The tide of Republican sentiment against immigration legislation he has sponsored also led to the erosion of his lead.
At the tail end of 2007, however, McCain began a resurgence, which was capped by his January 2008 wins in the New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida primaries. This made him the front-runner for the Republican nomination. On Super Tuesday, McCain won both the majority of states and delegates in the Republican primaries, giving him a commanding lead toward the Republican nomination. By February 8, 2008, Rasmussen Reports gave McCain a 95.4 percent likelihood of winning the nomination. McCain clinched a majority of the delegates and became the presumptive Republican nominee with wins in the Ohio primary, Texas primary, and in Vermont and Rhode Island on March 4. The following day, President George W. Bush endorsed McCain at the White House.
Senator Hillary Clinton:
New York junior Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had expressed interest in the 2008 United States presidential election since at least October 2002, drawing media speculation on whether she would become a candidate. No woman has ever won the nomination of a major party in the history of U.S. presidential elections.
On January 20, 2007, she announced that she was forming an exploratory committee and filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to seek the nomination of the Democratic Party. Subsequently she began heavy fundraising and campaigning activities. For several months Clinton led opinion polls among Democratic candidates by substantial margins, until Senator Barack Obama pulled close to or even with her. Clinton then regained her lead, winning many polls by double digits; by autumn 2007 she was leading all other Democratic candidates by wide margins in national polls. She placed third in the Iowa caucus to Barack Obama and John Edwards, and trailed considerably in polls shortly thereafter in New Hampshire, before staging a sudden and dramatic comeback and finishing first in the New Hampshire primary. She went on to win in Nevada, but lost by a heavy margin in South Carolina. On Super Tuesday, Clinton won delegate-rich states such as California and New York, while Obama won more states; the two gained a nearly equal number of delegates and a nearly equal share of the total popular vote. Clinton then lost the next eleven caucuses and primaries to Obama, and lost the overall delegate lead to him for the first time. On March 4, his consecutive wins increased to twelve when Vermont was called in his favor but after an increasingly aggressive round of campaigning, Clinton broke the string of losses with wins in the Rhode Island, Ohio, and Texas primaries. After subsequently losing the Wyoming caucus and Mississippi primary, and winning the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton was left with 1331 elected and pledged delegates, trailing her opponent by 156; her count of unelected and unpledged superdelegates continues to lead Barack Obama by 23. This produces an overall 133-delegate Obama lead, with 1,586 to Obama's 1,719, towards the 2,025 total (pledged and unpledged) delegates needed to win the nomination.
Barack Obama:
Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007. He is seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party for the 2008 presidential election.
Obama announced at the Old State Capitol building where Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided" speech in 1858. Obama's initial victory in the Iowa caucus brought him to national prominence out of the crowded field of Democratic challengers, and his campaign began to trade a series of hard-fought state wins with expected Democratic Party frontrunner Hillary Clinton in January, a trend which continued through Super Tuesday, where Obama had great success in large rural states, and Clinton was nearly as dominant in high-population coastal areas. Obama continued to have remarkable fundraising and electoral success in February, winning all 11 state and territorial-level contests following Super Tuesday, and "chipping away" at Clinton's core supporters in key states. Obama split the contests of March 4, winning Vermont and Texas, losing Ohio and Rhode Island, and losing six delegates of his lead. After then winning the Wyoming caucus and Mississippi primary, and losing the Pennsylvania primary, Obama is estimated to have 1,487 elected and pledged delegates, leading his opponent by 156; his count of unelected and unpledged superdelegates trails Hillary Clinton by 23. This produces an overall 133-delegate Obama lead, with 1,719 to Clinton's 1,586, towards the 2,025 total [pledged and unpledged] delegates needed to win the nomination.
Who will win?
Many may argue with different names in their mind. In Weely Blitz [largest and most influential newspaper in Bangladesh], we had a ocult research team led by Panna Choudhury [a Bangladeshi Canadian], who came back to Dhaka in 2006 after staying in Montreal for 25 years. Panna Choudhury comes up with his prediction that, finally the ´war´ for presidency will be between Senator John McCain and Senator Hillary Clinton. Senator John McCain´s star Jupitar is in high altitude. According to his prediction, the final result of the presidential election will be a complete upset for the Democrats. McCain will win the election with a clean lead. He said, "I have no doubt now to finally announce my prediction that McCain is the next president of United States."
When asked to comment on a number of Gallop Polls, which said that Senator Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States, Panna Choudhury with a broad smile on face said, "The world is going to witness a great upset. There is no room for even having minimum doubt that Americans will finally vote for McCain to be their next president."
Award wining, anti jihadist journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is the editor of English language newspaper Weekly Blitz. Online edition of this newspaper is available on www.weeklyblitz.net
Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are all sitting senators, of Arizona, Illinois and New York, respectively. It is virtually certain the victor of the 2008 election will be the first sitting senator elected to the Presidency since John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election.
The United States presidential election of 2008, scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2008, will be the 56th consecutive quadrennial election for president and vice president of the United States. It will coincide with the 2008 Senate elections in thirty-five states, House of Representatives elections in all states, and gubernatorial elections in eleven states, as well as various state referendums and local elections.
As in the 2004 presidential election, the allocation of electoral votes to each state will be based partially on the 2000 Census. Currently, primary elections and caucuses are held in order to choose the candidates for each party. The president-elect and vice president-elect are scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
As this is incumbent president George W. Bush's second term, he is barred from running due to term limits in the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution. When a US President leaves office, his vice president is usually considered a leading candidate and likely nominee to succeed him. In 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney announced he would never run for president, a statement he reiterated in 2004.
In the three most recent presidential administrations featuring an outgoing two-term president — those of Eisenhower, Reagan, and Clinton — the incumbent vice president has immediately thereafter run for president. [Richard Nixon lost the 1960 election, George H. W. Bush won the 1988 election, and Al Gore lost the 2000 election.]
In the 1968 election, Lyndon B. Johnson initially decided to seek re-election. He entered the New Hampshire primary and won. However, he had a national poll conducted, which yielded results not in his favor. In a nationally televised speech, Johnson announced to the public that he would not seek re-election. Incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ran instead and was the eventual Democratic Party nominee.
During this period, several former vice presidents have sought the office of president as non-incumbents. Henry A. Wallace was the Progressive Party nominee in 1948. Nixon was elected in 1968. Walter Mondale received his party's nomination in 1984. Dan Quayle was unsuccessful in bids for nomination in 1996 and 2000.
Senator John Mccain:
John McCain, the senior American United States Senator from Arizona, staged his second candidacy for the presidency of the United States for the 2008 presidential election. His candidacy was in the works for a number of years, was informally announced on February 28, 2007 and was then formally announced on April 25, 2007. He emphasized that "America should never undertake a war unless we are prepared to do everything necessary to succeed."
Should McCain win in 2008, he would be the oldest person to assume the Presidency in history at initial ascension to office, being 72 years old and surpassing Ronald Reagan, who was 69 years old at his inauguration following the 1980 election. He has dismissed concerns about his age and past health concerns (malignant melanoma in 2000), stating in 2005 that his health was "excellent."[4][5] In the event of his victory in 2008, he would also become the first President of the United States not to be born within the United States (he was born in Panama within the Panama Canal Zone),[6] and the first sitting U.S. Senator since John F. Kennedy to win the presidency. He would also be the first president from Arizona.
McCain began the campaign as the nominal frontrunner among Republicans, with a strategy of appearing as the establishment, inevitable candidate; towards this end he made substantial overtures towards elements of the Republican base that had resisted his 2000 insurgency campaign. However, he soon fell behind in polls and fundraising; by July 2007 his campaign was forced to restructure its size and operations. The tide of Republican sentiment against immigration legislation he has sponsored also led to the erosion of his lead.
At the tail end of 2007, however, McCain began a resurgence, which was capped by his January 2008 wins in the New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida primaries. This made him the front-runner for the Republican nomination. On Super Tuesday, McCain won both the majority of states and delegates in the Republican primaries, giving him a commanding lead toward the Republican nomination. By February 8, 2008, Rasmussen Reports gave McCain a 95.4 percent likelihood of winning the nomination. McCain clinched a majority of the delegates and became the presumptive Republican nominee with wins in the Ohio primary, Texas primary, and in Vermont and Rhode Island on March 4. The following day, President George W. Bush endorsed McCain at the White House.
Senator Hillary Clinton:
New York junior Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had expressed interest in the 2008 United States presidential election since at least October 2002, drawing media speculation on whether she would become a candidate. No woman has ever won the nomination of a major party in the history of U.S. presidential elections.
On January 20, 2007, she announced that she was forming an exploratory committee and filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to seek the nomination of the Democratic Party. Subsequently she began heavy fundraising and campaigning activities. For several months Clinton led opinion polls among Democratic candidates by substantial margins, until Senator Barack Obama pulled close to or even with her. Clinton then regained her lead, winning many polls by double digits; by autumn 2007 she was leading all other Democratic candidates by wide margins in national polls. She placed third in the Iowa caucus to Barack Obama and John Edwards, and trailed considerably in polls shortly thereafter in New Hampshire, before staging a sudden and dramatic comeback and finishing first in the New Hampshire primary. She went on to win in Nevada, but lost by a heavy margin in South Carolina. On Super Tuesday, Clinton won delegate-rich states such as California and New York, while Obama won more states; the two gained a nearly equal number of delegates and a nearly equal share of the total popular vote. Clinton then lost the next eleven caucuses and primaries to Obama, and lost the overall delegate lead to him for the first time. On March 4, his consecutive wins increased to twelve when Vermont was called in his favor but after an increasingly aggressive round of campaigning, Clinton broke the string of losses with wins in the Rhode Island, Ohio, and Texas primaries. After subsequently losing the Wyoming caucus and Mississippi primary, and winning the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton was left with 1331 elected and pledged delegates, trailing her opponent by 156; her count of unelected and unpledged superdelegates continues to lead Barack Obama by 23. This produces an overall 133-delegate Obama lead, with 1,586 to Obama's 1,719, towards the 2,025 total (pledged and unpledged) delegates needed to win the nomination.
Barack Obama:
Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007. He is seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party for the 2008 presidential election.
Obama announced at the Old State Capitol building where Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided" speech in 1858. Obama's initial victory in the Iowa caucus brought him to national prominence out of the crowded field of Democratic challengers, and his campaign began to trade a series of hard-fought state wins with expected Democratic Party frontrunner Hillary Clinton in January, a trend which continued through Super Tuesday, where Obama had great success in large rural states, and Clinton was nearly as dominant in high-population coastal areas. Obama continued to have remarkable fundraising and electoral success in February, winning all 11 state and territorial-level contests following Super Tuesday, and "chipping away" at Clinton's core supporters in key states. Obama split the contests of March 4, winning Vermont and Texas, losing Ohio and Rhode Island, and losing six delegates of his lead. After then winning the Wyoming caucus and Mississippi primary, and losing the Pennsylvania primary, Obama is estimated to have 1,487 elected and pledged delegates, leading his opponent by 156; his count of unelected and unpledged superdelegates trails Hillary Clinton by 23. This produces an overall 133-delegate Obama lead, with 1,719 to Clinton's 1,586, towards the 2,025 total [pledged and unpledged] delegates needed to win the nomination.
Who will win?
Many may argue with different names in their mind. In Weely Blitz [largest and most influential newspaper in Bangladesh], we had a ocult research team led by Panna Choudhury [a Bangladeshi Canadian], who came back to Dhaka in 2006 after staying in Montreal for 25 years. Panna Choudhury comes up with his prediction that, finally the ´war´ for presidency will be between Senator John McCain and Senator Hillary Clinton. Senator John McCain´s star Jupitar is in high altitude. According to his prediction, the final result of the presidential election will be a complete upset for the Democrats. McCain will win the election with a clean lead. He said, "I have no doubt now to finally announce my prediction that McCain is the next president of United States."
When asked to comment on a number of Gallop Polls, which said that Senator Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States, Panna Choudhury with a broad smile on face said, "The world is going to witness a great upset. There is no room for even having minimum doubt that Americans will finally vote for McCain to be their next president."
Award wining, anti jihadist journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is the editor of English language newspaper Weekly Blitz. Online edition of this newspaper is available on www.weeklyblitz.net
