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Contenders and Pretenders: Who Will Run and Who Will Win the Race for the White House in 2008

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What's amazing about the upcoming presidential election is how early things are getting underway. "Contenders and Pretenders" is a great sort of primer book, it looks at all the candidates, their pluses and minuses, and some other issues that are going to determine the outcome in 2008. One chapter titled "Red State, Blue State," looks at how if the Democrats don't nominate a contender that will win some of the traditionally Republican leaning states, it could be 2000 and 2004 all over again. The author shows why the candidates getting all of the press right now on both sides probably won't be there at the end. The book was really worth the money!

The author does a great job of looking at all of the presidential candidates for 2008. He analyzes the top-tier contenders, as he calls them, but is also not afraid to discuss how some of the "pretenders" are going to have significant roles in deciding who the next president is going to be. Ultimately, he makes some bold predictions about who the republican and democratic presidential nominees will go to. Even if you may not agree with his selections, you will be able to see, based on his analysis, how he came to those choices.