The Prognastycators

Let me start out by saying, I don't know who'll be the Democratic Nominee this coming fall. I must admit that I favor Hillary Clinton. That's why I'm especially amused when the network spin doctors and paid political prognosticators get it all wrong. Last night after the "O Man" had won Vermont and with Hillary leading in Ohio by 9 percentage points, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann gleefully pointed to an early Obama lead in Texas with only a scant 1% of the votes in. Chris Matthews could barely contain his glee. This surely was the end of  "The Clintons" as Matthews repeatedly called the Clinton Campaign. What ensued next was a discussion about why Hillary should drop out for "the sake of the party". No sense in bludgeoning each other into the Spring while McCain and the Republicans sit pretty with the nomination of their party in hand. History tells us that within the last 50 years NO president has EVER been elected having lost the Ohio Primary. This is a fact. Maybe Obama will be the nominee and be the exception to that rule. Not being a paid political pundit like Matthews and Olbermann, I think it's possible it could be done. The point I'm trying to make is that the networks were there to fill in about 3 hours of airtime for an event that takes only 5 seconds to announce who won and what the numbers were. They chose to deliver the Clinton obituary. They were wrong.  I found it startling that a senior Obama advisor would "soft pedal" his candidates hard view of NAFTA to Canadian officials by stating that Obama's protectionist stand was "more reflective of political maneuvering than policy". Political maneuvering?  It seems we've had enough of that the past 7 years. It seems like a little bit of "business as usual" instead of "Change" and "Hope".  Obama to his credit had an incredible winning streak. He won 11 states in a row. That is something. But more importantly, look at the states he won. They were small "red states" that haven't gone Democratic since Roosevelt was running. (I may be wrong about that historically , but you catch my drift.) Anyway, we'll see what happens. At this point it's safe to say that anything can happen. So the next time those prognastycators do their little spin thingee, do what I do and turn the channel to American Idol.