Obama-Clinton contest is drawing to a close

The Pennsylvania showdown between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton is coming to a close...mercifully. The issue is that, even if Sen. Clinton wins big in Pa., she is probably too far behind Sen. Obama in election delegates to make up the difference (of more than 100 delegates). There is talk of using the "super delegates" to swing the process in her favor by supporters. But would that make her nomination questionable ethically -- even if she can do it?

Candidates should be nominated in the election process, nit in back rooms. Click on the headline and go to CNN.com.

Neither Obama or Clinton can win without super delegates

The battle for the Democratic Party's nod for president is so tight that neither Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama can win without the all-important super delegates at the convention. These guys would make life a lot easier on Dems nationwide if they would just rock, paper, scissors to decide who will be Prez and who gets VP.

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Study: Whites will be minority by 2050

According to a recent study, Whites will be a minority group in the United States by 2050. My opinion is that while diversity has been an idea whose time has come in many places, still other areas are going to be challenged more dramatically by a demographic turn-around on that scale.

Where it involves political races, I think it is plain that the party with the biggest tent is much more likely to be the early winner of this change of the tide. As seen in the ongoing presidential campaign of Sen. Obama, "minority" voting has become much more mainstream as previously marginalized groups are taking a position far more in the center of the political landscape than has previously occurred.

In Monmouth County, an area notoriously un-diverse in many corners, I think this change is going to translate into a modification of views in many communities. Personally, I think the United States was built upon the idea that change is not a bad thing; change represents new opportunities.

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