Growing Gobama Buzz

In his latest column for Time Magazine, old SAM Online favorite, Joe Klien, touches on what he admits is a very unlikely scenario.

That would be Barack Obama being unable to gain the support of working- class whites, and the emergence of a ticket led by Al Gore, with Obama (and his 1900 delegates) on the back end.

This would only happen if the Democrats were deadlocked, and neither Obama or Hillary Clinton were able to get the necessary 2025 delegates for the nomination.

As Klien notes- "Chances are, no one will hand [the nomination] to [Gore]. The Democratic Party would have to be monumentally desperate come June."

But also- "A prominent fund raiser told me, 'Gore-Obama is the ticket a lot of people wanted in the first place.'"

Another reason to like Joe

Joe Klein has been one of my favorite political writers since I faked reading Primary Colors in high school and watched the movie instead. (I finally went back and read it for real last summer.) Klein wrote that very compelling book anonymously, and only revealed his identity after the movie's release in 1998.

I also read a lot of his Time Magazine articles for poli- sci classes in college, and his short and sweet Clinton bio The Natural.

So Klein was a favorite of mine based on his talent and style before I read that he is a colossal Mets fan. So you can imagine how I feel about him now. Here Klein pens an article on the Mets collapse entitled: Oh, My Mets!.