[TomGuy]

Unless the GOP rallies around one of the major candidates, Hillary! and her VP Obama will coast.

What makes them the major candidate? Attention. With the current methods of technology and media, any candidate with enough effort can become a major candidate almost overnight. Osama Obama did.

If one of the 'lesser' candidates seems to be the better, he/she could become the frontrunner with enough support and effort.

Folding hands 20 months from the election because a few straw polls and the MSM say X or Y and Z are the only ones electable plays right into the MSM's desire to control the direction. Keep in mind that MSM made Obama a contender; they took an empty suit and put him on the front pages. My gosh! The guy has even less experience and capabilities (except he is clean and makes good speeches) than that jester Jon Carry -- who almost got elected in 04.

[MichiganConservative]

Folding hands 20 months from the election because a few straw polls and the MSM say X or Y and Z are the only ones electable plays right into the MSM's desire to control the direction.

Maybe they do this because they can. Maybe they can because the American sheeple are fat, stupid, lazy, immoral, and content to be house slaves.

[catpuppy]

Mostly correct. But easier said than done.

Your any candidate with enough effort can become a major candidate almost overnight does not mean that a Kucinich, Hunter, Tancredo or Sharpton can be nominated, much less elected. "Effort" surely must = a combination of money, name recognition, organization, constituency, message, etc.-- things that do not materialize "overnight" or in the case of some, (Kucinich or Frist for example) ever.