We now know that John McCain will be the Republican nomination for November’s US Presidential election. Of course this will not be confirmed until McCain has passed the winning post, but realistically he simply cannot be caught.
Last week, Senator Mitt Romney, McCain’s biggest threat suspended his campaign, all but handing victory to McCain. It seemed an unusual decision to pull out, but perhaps by continuing he would have only been delaying the inevitable. McCain was comfortably in the lead, and was unlikely to be caught.
It is now likely that Romney and his supporters will fully endorse McCain’s campaign, just like Rudolph Giuliani has since pulling out of the race last week. The weight of support behind McCain will all but crush the campaign of the only other real candidate, Mike Huckabee.
McCain who lost out to George W Bush in 2000, is brimming with confidence, although his victory has been all but overlooked in the news by the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Things are far from over in the race to be the Democrat candidate. As I predicted, Super Tuesday gave us no major clues as to who will run for the Presidency. Psychologically, Hillary Clinton perhaps has the edge over Barack Obama, after taking the all important key state of California.
It would appear that their head to head battle will go right down to the wire. Never before has an election gripped America quite like this one, and would you believe that the election itself is not until November.
