Sunday, January 27, 2008

Can't Stop What's Coming?

The title's a quote from the odds-on Best Picture favorite as of tonight. The reference here is to the flip from Hillary to Barack, and I think you're going to see some tectonic-type shifts in the national polls, and the upcoming February 5th Super Tuesday state polls shortly.

It'll be trickle-down. It'll be because of voters like this. It'll be because of former Clinton allies (in this case FCC Chairman appointed by Bill) like this.

Losing New Hampshire will be seen as the best thing that ever happened to the Obama campaign. If it had seemed so easy, you wouldn't have young volunteers from both political parties coming to work for the campaign like this.

Sure, there will be twists, maybe one that denies Obama the nomination, but that's getting increasingly risky, what with the massive deflation of Democrat enthusiasm that would ensue, what with all the endorsements being put on the line.

If Obama does win the nomination and then the Presidency, it will not only be the most meteoric rise of a politician in my lifetime, it will also be the most underestimated politician in generations. Even more underestimated than the current White House denizen.

After all, he went 70%-27% just three and a half years ago.

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