FOXNews offers confirming evidence for what I've been saying for months:
If American voters were casting their ballot today, Democrat Barack Obama would have a slight advantage over Republican John McCain in the race for the White House, while McCain would narrowly edge out Hillary Clinton, according to the latest FOX News poll.
Meanwhile, The Huffington Post paints a dark portrait of the Clinton Texas operation:
Although the Clinton Campaign has been telling the press that they have the ground operations to pull off a win in Texas, those ground operations have not been in evidence when I've traveled to small towns to see how Bill Clinton is doing on the Texas stump. Wednesday evening in Victoria, down in the southeastern part of the state, incipient chaos threatened to overwhelm the "Early Vote" Rally precisely because there was no ground operation. The well-oiled, beautifully constructed state-level HRC campaign machine, focused and determined in Iowa, Nevada and California, is beginning to break down.
"It's a clusterfuck! Just a clusterfuck!" the Corpus Christi producer for a local news affiliate shouts into his cell phone. He's telling his boss that there will be no coverage of Bill Clinton's visit to Victoria for the 6 o'clock news. "Who's running this campaign anyway?" the producer asks, of no one in particular. "And now five hundred people have stomped away mad." He shakes his head. At that moment, twenty well-dressed elderly and middle-aged dignitaries and politicians exit the back of the local arts center and walk slowly for the intersection of Goodwin and Main. Presumably, they are Hillary Clinton supporters; however, given their dazed faces, they look more like commissars who have been turned out by the NKVD and cannot believe how suddenly their fortunes have changed.
On the other hand, I didn't think she could win in New York. On the third hand, perhaps she wouldn't have, if she'd been playing against the varsity. At any rate, it certainly doesn't sound good.
All the evidence to date strongly suggests that the Clinton campaign didn't expect to have to mount an effort beyond February 5th.
Hubris, thy name is Clinton.
It's not "on the third hand"; it's "on the gripping hand."
If I were a cartoonist, I would draw a sketch of Hillary on the S.S. Super Tuesday with a "Mission Accomplished" banner in the background.
She won the war, lost the peace.
Damn! Someone beat me to the gripping hand comment.
Mr. Clinton was supposed to be at a Hillary rally in Houston about 8:30 PM, in time to get coverage on the local news at 10 PM. As of 10:20 PM he hadn't shown and nobody knew where he was, a point the reporter made at least 3 times during his live shot. Just before that, they showed Sen. Obama addressing a crowd of 10k or so in Dallas.
So, nice excerpt of Obama speech on one side; shots of people standing in line chanting "Hillary".
My wife and I both thought of the same thing - maybe he got sidetracked by a co-ed.....
After 40 years of campaign events, I've come to understand that this kind of chaos is the rule not the exception no matter who the candidate is.
Everything goes awry from hour one. (Most daily airline schedules are more "on time" than political campaigns.) Troops on the ground?
I've lived in my voting precinct nine years and neither party's committeeman has ever knocked on the door to solicit my support.
"FOXNews confirms" .....LOL. FOXNews isn't exactly a credible source.
Posited: FOX News is a more credible source than "Melissa".
Melissa, they are a hell of a lot more credible than the New York Times.
People still give credence to polls? How quaint.
Anthony and anony-mouse probably still think Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. Seriously, who still defends Fox News?