Obama – Allen Button A Sure Sign The Primary Is Over
This morning I found a strong sign that, at long last, the Democratic presidential primary is over. In a few days we’ll have the Oregon and Kentucky primary elections, to be sure, but in effect the Democratic presidential nominee is already chosen.
Here’s my sign: A campaign button promoting presidential candidate Barack Obama and U.S. Senate candidate Tom Allen – together.
Tom Allen, who currently serves as one of the two members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine, appears to already benefit from the substantial coattails of the Obama presidential campaign. If I were a bookie, I’d look at increasing the odds of his victory in November.
Nationally, the news is that Barack Obama has been recognized as the Democratic presidential candidate, and the frontrunner in the general election. Watch for as the links between Barack Obama and other Democratic members of Congress are now made.
With an advantage as strong as the one Obama has, it will be as much his job to come to congressional districts where a Democratic candidate needs as a boost as it will be for him to campaign merely for himself. With Obama far in the lead, 2008 becomes an election that’s congressional in focus.
