Yesterday President Bush sat down for an exclusive interview with Fox News Sunday‘s Chris Wallace, talking about everything from the war on terror to his legacy. His philosophy on the 2008 election:
Bush refused to talk about the election in terms of a McCain candidacy since Huckabee hasn’t yet dropped out. Tim Russert laid out exactly what Huckabee’s up against when the former governor showed up on Meet the Press. “You need 1191 delegates; you have 231,” Russert informed Huckabee. “That means you need 960. … There are only 819 delegates to win. So how are you going to do that?” Undaunted by the impossibility of getting to the needed number of delegates, Huckabee replied that he doesn’t “know how the math works out, but there’s always the chance something stumbles. The thing is it’s not just how many I need, Senator McCain also needs that many. And if he doesn’t get that many, he’s not the nominee either. This thing could go to the convention. Who knows? But the one thing I know, when people say, ‘Isn’t it a rather complicated and convoluted path to victory?’ You bet it is. But it’s a real easy path to defeat.” New Fox News contributor Karl Rove popped up on Face the Nation to break down why McCain is the GOP’s best hope for retaining the White House:
Byron York, on the other hand, posited on This Week that Republican hopes might rest on Democratic super delegates–the unpledged “party leaders” who get votes at the Democratic national convention–choosing the Democratic nominee. “I think that would be great for Republicans. And if Barack Obama, if it’s essentially tied or he’s slightly ahead, and he doesn’t get the nomination, we’ve had all this talk about lack of Republican enthusiasm for the Republican candidate–if you have lack of Democratic enthusiasm for the Democratic candidate you turn what is a Democratic year by all measurements into an even match.”
