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Originally Posted by Sausage
Sure he should, but do you really think the media or his opponents will give him a chance ? He is far too honest to win .. there is no way he will even get a look in!
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As I said above, it is him that doesn't want to him to win. It has very little to do with the media. Sure, he isn't a sexy candidate who gives them good sound bites and he is very smart so he isn't going to do Palin/Biden like gaffs, but if her were actually a candidate who won some of the primaries and was out in front they would pay attention to him.
His problem, and I guess in a way it is linked to what you say about him being too honest, is that he won't take any corporate money nor will he let lobbyist and the power brokers raise money for him. It takes around 100-150 million to win the primaries and Obama will have somewhere between 800 million and 1 billion for the general election. If he wants to compete on that level he has to be willing to let the machine raise him that money. Then when he is i office he can do as he pleases and if it works out, his popularity could carry him into a second term. But he won't do that so he will never raise enough money and therefore never give himself a legit chance.