The comments of the former New York Governor back up my thoughts that I expressed in my last post. I’d like to highlight some excerpts of the Article from the Boston Globe here.

…because the primaries will have extended over such a long period, some voters will have changed their preference by the convention in August. Other entanglements also threaten the possibility of a selection at the convention that would be supported by both constituencies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

No matter how all these challenging questions are resolved, the increasing contentiousness has left the two candidates – and more importantly their distinct constituencies – badly alienated. Polls show that if the battle continues to a conclusion at the convention, a significant portion of the constituency supporting the loser will refuse to vote Democratic in November. That could cost the Democrats the election and bring back “Bushism,” assuring the continuance of the tragic Iraq war indefinitely.

And here his solution:

Who can solve the problem?

Obama and Clinton can – by putting aside personal irritations, and to some extent personal aspirations, and agreeing to end the hostilities and form a ticket that offers both of them, a candidate for president and a candidate for vice president who is clearly good enough to serve as president, should the occasion arise. That candidate for vice president would also have a good chance of being elected president eight years from now because neither of the two would be too old in 2016. If they are not capable of doing that, the two could announce they will complete the primary schedule and convention with the winner becoming candidate for president and the other agreeing to be a candidate for vice president, thereby mollifying to some extent the constituency of the candidate who was not chosen as the nominee for president.

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like the candidates are going to take his advice. Hillary appears to be heading for a victory in Pennsylvania. Her hopes are to stage a comeback and go into the convention with momentum. Barack appears confident that he will have enough success in the last primaries to have the advantage going into the convention. The problem is a victory by one or the other will will very likely alienate their opponents supporters. Let them show that they can unite by working together to unite the Democrats again.

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