Letters to the Editor
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Why isn't anyone stating the obvious? Obama is DONE...THE FIX IS IN (part 3)
how the racial bias of white America was expressed in the NH vote because it was secret balloting rather than the public caucusing of Iowa, which allowed many whites who expressed support for Obama to secretly vote otherwise without being exposed as frauds as they would have been in Iowa (notice how this story also serves to get in racial digs against Obama, in the course of "exposing" the possible racial bias of NH voters--both clever and sleazy); how tracking polls and exit polls are unreliable and untrustworthy and just wild guesses (thus ignoring the well-established and finely-honed scientific and mathematical principles behind them, as well as a decades-long track record of superb accuracy and reliance on them by the media and political parties); how Hillary and Bill publicly distorted Obama's voting record and beliefs in the last day or two and may have swayed some fence-sitters that way (going so far as to send out a campaign mailer to women saying that Obama opposes abortion rights and that Clinton has to win in order to stop him, as reported by a recipient of one mailer on Air America Radio this morning); and much more.
We even heard this morning of a poll from yesterday by some small college in NH (not the University of NH) that was strangely unreported on yesterday, that showed Obama beating Clinton by only one point--well within the statistical margin of error. WOW! Impressive! Why was no one talking up this poll yesterday? Why didn't the Clinton campaign use that as evidence to show that she was closing the gap and could win after all, rather than slogging through Tuesday feeling "despondent, even fatalistic"? It was the only poll out of many that showed Clinton even close to Obama, by a long shot. And yet we didn't hear about it until today. Hmm. Regardless, that same poll called the Republican race for Mitt Romney, who ended up losing to McCain by a healthy margin, so you can be the judge of just how accurate it was.
Any flimsy straws the media can grasp to attempt to explain the inexplicable.
Wake up people. You are being played, deceived, manipulated. If my thesis about NH is correct, do you honestly think that Obama will go on to win the nomination? Get a grip. Clinton will win the Democratic nomination, and Obama will start to fade away as mysteriously as he first appeared. Clinton's nomination will give the Republicans a huge boost and a unity they now lack, and make it more likely that McCain will be their nominee (and he can out-experience Clinton any day.) It will also almost certainly lead to a Bloomberg run as an independent--a wild card that will bleed independent voters away from Clinton, who will desperately need them to win in November. Gird your loins, another Republican president looms on the horizon. The Dems will yet again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I say this all not as a strong Obama supporter, nor as a Clinton hater. I've been an Edwards guy from the start of this campaign and I still am, although he has no chance to win the nomination. I'm not a registered Democrat but I'm far to the left politically. I've always had a great deal of respect and admiration for Clinton as a person, even while disagreeing with her on many issues and knowing that she and Bill can play dirty politics behind the scenes with the best of them. Nor does her gender factor into my analysis at all (being harder on her than I would be on a male candidate in an analogous situation.)
However, after watching last night unfold I could only feel disgust and shame. We're observing a scripted and choreographed entertainment spectacle unfold before us, not a true election campaign. There's no sense fooling ourselves any longer.