Granted it has been a slow two news days BUT if you have had the television on at all in the last twenty-four hours plus you would know that Giuliani is seeking the presidency. (Though technically he won’t announce for a bit.) What is interesting is how quickly the media jumped onto the “It will be McCain vs. Hillary” bandwagon and now that other candidates are announcing they have had to shift their attention.

Almost every report about Giuliani has included a breakdown of how he matches up against McCain. I can imagine that the same will happen with all potential Democrats against Hillary. I don’t entirely know where the McCain/Hillary wisdom started but it seems to have seeped into the entire media machine. My guess is the Giuliani news will carry for another couple of days and then turn back to McCain/Hillary.
My favorite breakdown thus far has been from the Washington Post which said of the other potential Republican candidates:

Dick Armey, Sam Brownback, Chuck Hagel, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter and George Pataki have all visited Iowa. But their candidacies would need a series of plane crashes and assassinations imaginable only in Hollywood to move to the front of the pack.

You cannot put things more plainly then that. Still there is a lot of political maneuvering to come. Giuliani and McCain represent the centrist vote that turned out in 2006 but not the Religious vote that turned out in 2004 for the Republicans. Will it matter? Will the attempts by each to play to the right work? Will Duncan Hunter fever sweep the nation? Only time will tell.

Politics & Opinions

Glenn Thursh in the Detroit News Online asks if Senator Barack Obama is truly ready for 2008?

Katherine Mangu-Ward looks at the failure of the predictions markets to call the 2006 election for Reason Magazine.

Andrew Ward says the Democrats Failed to Hit the Beat in Dixieland in the 2006 election for the Financial Times (reprinted on MSNBC)