And then there were seven.....

[poltr1]

With both John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani dropping out of the presidential race today, that leaves seven candidates. Who's left? On the Democratic side of the aisle, it's Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mike Gravel. On the Republican side, it's John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul.

MSNBC put together a nice "matrix" of the candidates and issues here. This matrix also includes those who have already dropped out of the race.

And yes, I've noticed the media hasn't given a lot of coverage to Gravel or Paul recently.

Comments

[zorya-thinks.livejournal.com]

Gravel just can't pull in enough support to make him competitive.

Thanks for the link to the matrix. I was a bit surprised that I agree with Clinton on several issues, but some of her statements were so vague that there wasn't much with which to disagree.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

Realistically, it's down to McCain and Romney on the Republican side, and Clinton and Obama on the Democratic side.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

I can't find a single news source online that reports Giuliani actually having officially withdrawn as yet, though there are some with stories to the effect that he is *expected* to do so, or that his campaign has collapsed.

Rudy's a scrapper, though; I know—I used to live in NYC at the tail end of his tenure as mayor. And the matrix you point to shows him still in (though it is indeed very nicely done). Don't assume he's out just yet.

[dragon-pet.livejournal.com]

Here is a report http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22915310/