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It is difficult to determine if their desperation has led them to make principle subservient to ambition or if this is just how they are.

In any event, I don't see a scenario where they will be returned to the White House. The best they can do for the sheep's clothing set is to ensure a "Republican victory". I placed that last term in quotation marks, because a "Republican victory" is not an electoral victory in the traditional sense. It is a situation where they can get close enough to let Diebold, et al flip the results with a reduced chance of getting famous for it.

If the nomination is secured by Hillary Clinton and her K Street crowd (including McAuliff) she is certain to motivate the Republican base while leaving the Democratic base yawning at home. This will be Karl Rove's belated Christmas. That gets them as close as they can get and minimizes the number of votes that they have to steal.

If John Edwards were to be nominated, he would mobilize the Democratic base, but also the Corporatist Republicans, and would inspire Corporatist Democrats to stay home. The consoling factor is that the Corporatists are what they themselves consider to be the elite, so they keep their own numbers down. Edwards' margin would be larger.

If Barack Obama Wins the nod, he can turn out the Democratic base, disillusion the Republican base, and draw independents and even some Republicans to rally to his cause. This would present a prohibitively large margin for Mssrs. Rove and Diebold to overcome.

If Dennis Kucinich were to somehow win the Democratic nomination, the likely scenario would be for Dubya to declare martial law and abolish elections.

Of course, none of this takes into account the array of fascist tactics that will be deployed against any of the Democratic nominees, but I am working on the assumption that no candidate is completely immune to the slander, so the effects upon each will be more or less equal.