BREAKING: DOLE LEADS CLINTON BY NINE IN NEW POLL FROM NEWSWEEK

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25. I remember that, too

What some overlooked, as I saw it: the reason the 2008 Primary was so hard-fought was because after the disastrous 8 years of Cheney-Bush, it was obvious that NO Republican would win the White House in 2008, especially after Howard's brilliant engineering of the re-taking of Congress in 2006. The race for the 2008 Democratic nomination was the race for the presidency.

At the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver, on the first or second night, a big "Party for our Party" was held, and after Howard gave his welcoming speech, you could feel in the air that the momentum was so powerful that anyone showing up claiming to be a Republican would probably have been given a sympathy consolation drink instead of being rudely ushered out (as would any Democrat at the Republican convention).