Letters to the Editor
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John Anderson
Obama will have a tough time against McCain, but Clinton would be worse.
McCain will be beaten. Don't go by polls. Last year, McCain was toast, this year McCain is the GOP nominee. The GOP is in disarray. Last year Hillary was the presumptive nominee before a single primary with a double digit lead. This year, she is finished. The media and Hillary made much of Wright but the voters proved them wrong. This has been a seminal year in American politics. Voters are no longer listening to the punditocracy much less swayed by GOP style attack ads.
I spent 2 weeks registering voters in Oregon. Over and over again the mantra was the Iraq war and Hillary's vote on it. In other states too, that was the prime reason people are coming out in droves to exercise their franchise. If the war in Iraq is the fulcrum, the GOP does not stand a donkey's chance in hell to win. Two congressional seats have been lost this year alone in GOP strongholds - in Louisianna and Illinois.
But we have to work hard folks to keep Hillary from bringing the party down. As Herbert suggests in the NYTimes piece, "The Clintons have no shame." We must not let them prevail.