In misleading news that doesn't mean a damn thing, Hillary Clinton has cemented her lead over Obama and Edwards in the Democratic race. Of course, most Americans will never vote in the primaries, even most Democrats, and of those who will, few are yet paying attention, and of those who will, the ones in the early primaries will determine who is the actual nominee, which is why the candidates are spending so much time in say, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, where the race looks quite different. The other issue, of course, is money. And again, this has no bearing on that. So the whole thing is just a form of journalistic masturbation, done in public, over and over. Reels the mind ... (If one must look at polls, this one is far more significant.)
I will say this, about the race, however. I did a breakfast on Sunday for the Creative Coalition with Ed Rollins. He definitely gave the impression that Republican pros are souring on Fred Thompson, for his messy non-campaign and his disappointing fund-raising figures. If Thompson does not get in this race, or does not win it, as far as I can tell, the Democrats do, regardless of who is the nominee. If Crazy Rudy wins the nomination, you can count on a third-party challenge from the religious right that will screw things up further for them. And if Bloomberg gets in the race, making it four candidates, and Rudy is the nominee, it also helps the Democrats because everyone agrees he is a much better mayor than Rudy was and so it destroys his raison d'etre. So the Democrats win there too. Seems to me Thompson is the only shot the Republicans have, so this is good news.
Read the whole Altercation here.
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