Reply #3: OK where's the substance? [View All]

[PATRICK]

You are preaching to the choir with me, but what kind of polling, since it came almost the night before to worry again about state machinery, contradicts today's results? Some showed Hillary leading and gaining. Others were lost in polling momentum designed to track Obama's bounce. At no time, despite the gasbags, did anything have time to show an actual electoral collapse for Clinton outside Iowa. In fact, despite wishful thinking or guessing there was NO time to ground any such certitude. People shout "change" and "momentum" and most often something else is really driving things. Trying to spark a rout never hurt, just as in a confused battle, but it very often has nothing to do with reality except spread panic and mind-changing.

Romney would have done better if the fraud was large. The GOP danger is more there. IF the NH vote was closer it might have helped or hurt more. They will have to turn off the year of the woman fighter which their idiot pundits who can't even make the GOP slobs look good in controlled debates continually fuel. But future races if this gets tighter? We in continuing danger and it is unlikely any campaign has the energy or resources to even look in that direction. One might say(cynically) that Hillary overall has the least to worry about- in the primaries.

Face it. This year's candidates are positioned too strong and too well supported to be simply washed out early. Some typical good effort and the lines are held. No, the REAL battle may indeed be critically effected but it will take more time than a few days. The failure of the rout has in fact helped Hillary more than anything else. For now, we have a real campaign developing and I hope it burns away the hype and phoniness and the coasting and forces people to judge the real deal while they have yet a voice in the matter other than being fans following behind the machine.