Reply #26: and the repubs run big risks too:

[salin]

a thrice married multiple time adulturere whose vocablary is limited by the need to exploit 911.

a politician who has changed nearly every single stand on major issues between when he ran to be a GOP pres of a liberal state, to run to the conservative base and ends up looking like Eddie Haskel which is a big turnoff

a candidate once seen as a maverick, who is now seen as bushlight after three years of back tracking and playing miniBush

a man who asserts that dinosaurs existed with Adam and Eve, and that is the less of his extreme positions.

The faults of their candidates are not as easily ascribable to a specific prejudice, but each has the potential to revolt their voters. Here will be a big clue - usually the party with a wide-open race will have higher turnout in the primaries. This is one of those years whwere both parties have wide open primaries. If Iowa is any indication (per the participation in the two party primaries - where the dems came out at a 2:1 ratio) than the edge (if nothing else due to suppressing a chunk of the electorate who would be effected in teir voiting choice by their prejudices) goes to the dem candidate. So before declaring this now - wait until after the "super primary" date in early Feb - and getting a sense of the "enthusiasm" of the various parties in terms of participating to get a candidate to the top of their ticket, and in terms of where independents align themselves. (Many states let the declaration of party happen at the poll which allows independents to chose which party to work for. Still far to early to say that this is an election where much of america comes out to vote and votes primarily om their prejudices.