SCANDINAVIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR FORECASTS BRIAN MOORE AS POSSIBLE U.S. PRESIDENT
 
 
Scandinavian Political Scientist Professor Jacob Christensen, in his public blog, where he reviews Danish and Swedish politics - and on occasion other countries - refers to a May 13th article in The Atlantic.com by Mathew Yglesias about the recent West Virginia presidential election results.  
 
Since Mr. Yglesias writes-off both of the Democrats, Obama and Clinton, and one of the first internet responses to Yglesias article dispels Republican Senator John McCain because of his age, 72,  Professor Christensen speculates in his blog...."and who knows, perhaps, Brian Moore will be the next president of the United States!" 

History Shows That…

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Jacob Christensen
on 2008-05-14
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Actually I’m procrastinating while writing about the 1994 general election in Denmark - you know, the one where Jacob Haugaard not only was elected to parliament but also turned out to be the median legislatior - but the present US presidential campaign also has its intriguing moments.

I give you Matthew Yglesias who notes that people from the Clinton campaign argue that as Clinton won West Virginia and as no Democratic candidate since time immemorial has won the presidential election without winning WV. Hence, Hillary Clinton must be the Democratic candidate or else…

Yglesias strikes back by noting that no Democratic candidate has won without winning Minnesota. So, Barack Obama must be the candidate or else…

To sum up: The Democrats can’t win. They might as well cancel the rest of their campaigns as well as the convention and let John McCain cruise to victory.

But wait: There’s more. The first to comment Yglesias’s post of cause has to note that a 72-year-old geezer has never been elected president. So McCain is out and who knows, perhaps Brian Moore will be the next president of the United States.