The Yanks bought a presidential pup before. Will they do it again?

SOME have predicted that Barack Obama could turn out to be another George McGovern.

Back in 1972, McGovern won the Democratic party nomination by much the same route as Obama — with the help of the archaic caucus system.

If the same system were used in the primaries as will be used in the forthcoming presidential election, Hillary Clinton would have won the Democratic nomination comfortably.