The Super Tuesday Results are in and it is Hail and Farewell to the challengers: Bill Bradley and John McCain. But the effect of this unusually bloody primary season is likely to last until November.
Vice President Al Gore seems to have re-created himself in fighting off Bill Bradley. George W. Bush and the Republican Party however may have suffered wounds at the hands of John McCain that will not heal in time for Election Day.
But beyond the selection process and the personalities involved the Primary Season has given us a window on the electorate in the year 2000. It’s worth analyzing who the independents were who made John McCain such a thorn in the side of the Republican party establishment.
Will they sit on their hands in November? And as for campaign finance reform: is it an issue whose time will never come?
We’re dissecting Super Tuesday in this hour.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
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