The democrats really have an interesting scenario: a white woman or a semi-black man. I write semi-black because his mother is a white American and his father came directly from Kenya (?) to study in the US in the 1960's, so Obama probably isn't raised according to a typical Afro-American community. Hillary is the more experienced, but also carries the weight from her husband.

I read that Hillary had suggested a vote bill with both names printed on it. How would that work, doesn't every party (not only republicans and democrats, although they're the only two that count) nominate one candidate each? It could be rather confusing if the democrats in total got more votes than the republicans, but John McCain individually got more votes than either of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Add to that the electorial type of voting in the USA that already screws up the voting result somewhat (Al Gore got more votes total than George W. Bush, but not enough electors).

Another thought would be to split the democrats to two parties, but only the republicans would gain on that move.