Is it time to go home?

After months of tweaking hairstyles, kissing babies, delivering ‘God Bless America’s’ and edging away from embarrassing connections, speculation suggests that the curtain is about to fall on the Obama - Clinton showdown.

There is something about US elections that brings out the very best in its citizens. The pomp, the patriotism, the branding and the exaggerated euphoria – all things that they are very good at fuse together and provide much more excitement than the events Nantwich and Crewe by-election will ever be able to conjure up.

Fast and furious

‘Things move faster in America; people don’t stand for election, they run for office,’ mused Jessica Mitford in her wonderful memoir Hons and Rebels, and everything that has happened in the Democrat nomination process has remained true to form.

Both Obama and Clinton have enjoyed their successes. At one point it seemed as if Barak Obama, the Junior Senator for Illinois, was running away with the campaign, but in January Clinton recovered with victories in vital primaries. Obama then pulled away again, buoyed by support across most of the North American continent.

In total Obama holds a sum of 2,076 delegates and is hoping to reach the magical figure of 2,118 in the next few days. Clinton is barely a gnat’s crotchet behind with a total of 1,917, but it looks to be a significant enough gap. Just.

It now seems likely that Hillary Clinton will acknowledge that Obama has won, and will contest the election for the presidency of the United States with Republican John McCain in November. However, as recently as Sunday night Clinton was still promising supporters ‘twists and turns,’ after a strong victory in Puerto Rico, but it seems to be a little too late to make any lasting impression.

So, the US electoral bandwagon rolls onwards. Sharply dressed, persuasive Obama will meet up with the gregarious Republican ‘Quick Draw’ John McCain at the business end of the wedge later in the year; a contest that has got both parties rubbing their hands together in anticipation for already.

Misguided, dangerous and fuelled by a dangerous narcissism, you can level a number of attacks at US politics, but it is certainly never boring.

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