[Ford Prefect]

I'm not convinced that this race is detrimental to the Democrats. Why is it so bad that we have two candidates that people seem to think are viable? The tactics they're using against each other aren't anything that we haven't come to expect in a political campaign, and McCain is still suffering from his association with the current administration. (More so, for instance, than Obama is suffering for his association with Jeremiah Wright.)

[Nuclear1]

Because nearly a quarter of each candidate's supporters have said outright they will vote for McCain if there candidate doesn't make it.