The election story that seems to be getting little play in these first two elections is the stunningly bad turnout for “America’s mayor,” Rudy Giuliani.  He was a distant sixth in Iowa, getting beat by Ron Paul of all peope.  In New Hampshire he was nowhere to be seen again and only beat Ron Paul by less than a percentage point.  Now, Florida seems to be turning against Giuliani, and that was a state where he’d been leading in the polls for months!  Granted, he could still pull some major wins on Super Tuesday, but with Huckabee and McCain, and to a lesser extent Romney, taking all the limelight it will be more difficult for Mr. Giuliani to attract any interest.

Well, Hillary Clinton went into New Hampshire a little worse for wear and came out a winner.  I can’t say I’m too surprised by that.  New Hampshire seemed a better place for her than Iowa.  I’m sure the Obama supporters are unhappy, but I certainly don’t think they should horribly unhappy; they only lost by 3 percentage points and the actual votes were very close, as well.  Obama is still a contender and that’s how it should be.  There’s been too much of this inevitablility factor with Hillary Clinton and now she’ll actually have to run a race rather than slide through because people think she has the best chance to win.

No matter what happens after Super Tuesday, will we end up with the Clinton/Obama ticket or an Obama/Clinton ticket?  I certainly can’t see Hilllary Clinton playing second fiddle.  If Obama comes out of Super Tuesday with the most votes, and that’s still a big if, I wouldn’t mind seeing an Obama/Edwards tickets or even an Obama/Clark (Wesley, that is) ticket.