Nigerian Times

Photo Credit: FOX News Senator Hillary Clinton has won more delegates than Senator Barack Obama in the Super Tuesday Democratic primaries and caucuses while Senator John McCain won most of the states and delegates of the Republican Super Tuesday primaries. DEMOCRATS Hillary Clinton: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee Barack Obama: Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah REPUBLICANS John McCain: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma Mitt Romney: Alaska, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Utah Mike Huckabee: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia STATE BY STATE Alabama: Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee Alaska: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Arizona: Hillary Clinton, John McCain Arkansas: Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee California: Hillary Clinton, John McCain Colorado: B...

The hypocrisy of the American news media has become more pronounced in the coverage of the American presidential campaign in 2008. Presidential candidates have been misquoted, their statements distorted and reported out of context for sensational headlines and to start controversies to perpetrate malicious campaigns and turn voters against the targets of their offensives and the Clintons have been at the receiving end. That is why David Runciman’s article “Vote Hypocrite” on the Boston Globe online edition of February 3, 2008, is a good analysis of the conflict of interests among the Democrats and Republicans in their power struggle for political supremacy. I have seen spurious endorsements of the leading presidential candidates by those who have personal grudges against their political rivals. Malice and prejudice are so evident that only an ignorant observer would be fooled. These dishonest and ill-conceived approval ratings have only exposed the rot in American Democracy. It is n...