And So The Honeymoon Ends

It would appear some Democrats rolled over, had a cigarette and realized they still have to go to work in the morning, after all. But it was such a sweet affair. Obama was up by 8 not that long ago. This is an extremely critical juncture for Obama, no matter what happens in TX and Ohio today. Will that, "I'll call you tomorrow" from voters be an empty promise after a brief fling, have they found a new love that can last ... or will they sober up and go home to the trusted old battle axe in the end? If so, then Obama is truly screwed. And the media doesn't really care. A Hillary resurgence as much as anything gives them what they really want - hot news.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tied once again, with 45% of Democratic voters nationwide preferring each as the party's 2008 presidential nominee.

Comments

[IslamoLlama]

Wait, Obama is screwed with a 150 delegate lead, running neck and neck with the previous frontrunner how now? And the polls just shifted by single digits on the eve of the election to put them neck and neck again?

Don't you spend large chunks of your life following politics? How do you even make this claim without embarrassing yourself?

Macaca in '08 much?

[Dan Riehl]

Why do liberal morons like Islamo always try to make themselves look intelligent, yet always end up looking like the fools they actually are? Note to Islamo: that's a rhetorical question - look it up. Then go back to your Weekly Reader until your reading comprehension improves. What part of "If so" can't you comprehend? Or is it just that it's two words?

"If so, then Obama is truly screwed."

[Harvey]

May be, that Obamamania has run it's course now that the Rezko trial is starting to get some attention.
Hillary ain't gonna concede to Jack squat. She sees an opening. Show mama some love baby.

[tally]

obama shouldn't have been so easy, what a slut.

[IslamoLlama]

"--Note to Islamo: that's a rhetorical question - look it up. Then go back to your Weekly Reader until your reading comprehension improves. What part of "If so" can't you comprehend? Or is it just that it's two words?--"

Probably the part where you assume Obama is somehow screwed if he doesn't have smashing victories in both big states. These were Clinton's firewall havens, if you recall. If Obama were to loss big, he'd still be in the race. If he were to tie, he wouldn't be "screwed", he'd be "leading". If he wins big, the game is over and Hillary gets to pack it up or continue to feebly thrash till convention day. Under none of these scenarios is Obama "screwed".

You should know this. But your Drudge-like penchant for hyperbole makes you prone to outlandish assumptions. So you look like an fool who's never seen a Presidential election before today. And since we all know you know better, you just look that much dumber.

[Dan Riehl]

You should stop digging Islamo. He outspent Hillary big tiem in these states. If he can't eek out a win in Texas, he's far from on a roll. Hillary is still winning Democrats in TX and OH. If momentum shifts back to Hillary, that suggests Obama may have peaked and things could continue to turn around. When you are running a candidacy on thin air with no record or real experience, you can't afford to let the air come out of the balloon. In your usual dumb fashion, you are overreading my statements to suit your desire to try and make an attack. And it leaves you looking petty and dumb. But I suspect you're used to that around here.

[IslamoLlama]

"--If he can't eek out a win in Texas, he's far from on a roll. Hillary is still winning Democrats in TX and OH. If momentum shifts back to Hillary, that suggests Obama may have peaked and things could continue to turn around.

He won eleven straight states. And as the Dem primaries aren't winner-take-all, he doesn't have to be 50% + 1 to win a landslide of delegates in Texas or Ohio. Even if Obama has "peaked" that still leaves him "tied", with 16 states left to go before the convention. And a triple digit delegate lead. How this leaves him "screwed" continues to elude us both.

"--When you are running a candidacy on thin air with no record or real experience, you can't afford to let the air come out of the balloon.--"

Ah, the old Republican talking points. With experienced leaders like Cheney and Rumsfeld we've done so well why would we ever want to go back?

Irregardless of whether Barack would make a good President or not, your punditry still sucks due to your inability to handle basic math. No one is going to have this locked up before the convention without the Super Delegates having a say. So try to use a little common sense before you make these wide-eyed predictions of impending disaster.

[Dan Riehl]

You're arguments are weak, which is why you always need strawmen - impending disaster? I didn't say that. I said he was screwed, which would be true. He hoped to lock this thing up, that's what all that money was spent for. Instead, maybe he finds himself in a continued fight - at the very least until PA. That's getting screwed, especially with the Rezko trial having started, the media getting a bit negative on him finally just this week. The longer he has to go, the worse it is for him because, as I swaid, it's a candidacy built on thin air. He doesn't even have the bi-partisan record to match his record - another recently emerging meme.

Contrast that with the Messiah being annointed tonight and, indeed, he gets screwed.

[Fred Beloit]

Ladies and gentlebums, here is a master prose writer at work: "Irregardless of whether Barack would make a good President or not, your punditry..."

"Irregardless" is just an overly excited person's way of saying "regardless". And the "or not" is a simple redundancy.

That leaves : Regardless of whether Barack would make a good President, your punditry...

No thanks are necessary. In brevitas est gravitas.