I HATE POLLS!  

I hate it when people rely on polls to convince themselves that they are right. I hate it when people post poll results in almost every single diary they write, somehow believing that we will be stupid enough to think that their poll is the only true poll and the only poll that is credible. It's nonsense.

I've said it dozens of times before and have been attacked for it and contradicted dozens of times before... (by polls of course). I understand that some people on this site, including the front page writers live and die by polls.  In fact, some careers would not exist with out polls.  That doesn't mean it is right or good.    Polls mean NOTHING!  they represent a brief, momentary snapshot in time into the minds of the clueless.  Wait 15 minutes, ask the same people the same question and you will get different results. Unless you believe time and space stand still, then you should realize by now that polling today is so badly flawed all it can really tell us is Americans are ill or uninformed.

That being said, this much I know from experience.  Obama is a runaway train.  Short of a Dean "Scream", Muskie "blubber" or Hart "boat trip" nothing and no one is going to stop him.  He has been very consistent in his style and I really do not see him being foolish enough to let something close to any of the three previous campaign killers noted above, happen to him.

Hillary was never the front runner in this election cycle.  Despite your polls.  polls are "name recognition" and nothing more.  Of course Clinton would be at the top, but today, every news show, morning show newspaper blog and just about every other source of information in our world that is accessible to the "plebs" is Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama.  That is the name that is flooding the ether, and that is the name that will lead in all the polls. Again, it has nothing to do with policies or positions it is "name recognition".

Elections, the act of voting is also a poll, and to all too many people, a vote is merely a mark for the person whose name holds the primary position in your memory.  The world is not represented by the likes of us here on "MyDD".  Politically incorrect or not, most Americans are totally naive or just plain ignorant of the world, including they world they reside in themselves.

Obama is going to be the nominee for the democratic party, get used to it and get comfortable with it now before you turn yourself into a sour, bitter, poll taking, poll believing partisan, pundit hack.

If you are an Edwards supporter, like me, keep fighting for him, sending him money and vote for him when you can.  The same goes if you are a Clinton supporter or Richardson supporter.  But know this, stop attacking other Democratic candidates and begin to really educate yourself on Obama's policy positions.  The fact that you are ill informed on Obama's positions is your fault, not his, as all his positions are clearly available if you choose to look for them.

The Obama tide has arrived and it is taking away the money sources, the organizers, the movers that were waiting on the side lines, and hence, the election. No one is going to stop this wave. More people are jumping in and Edwards and Clinton can choose to do only two things.  Ride the wave or try to fight it.  

As we have seen already. Edwards is riding the wave, trying to keep up in hopes he can either be a part of the wave or control it somehow. Clinton has decided to fight and it is an ugly site.  The harder she tries to stop Obama the stronger she makes him, not by uplifting him, but rather by lowering herself.

Clinton has no one to blame but herself. She chose bad campaign managers who had a fatally flawed, "poll driven" strategy.  Who was the idiot who thought trumpeting her as the "change candidate" in her Iowa concession speech, with Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright and Wes Clark standing right behind her was a good idea?   Pathetic, simply pathetic and uninspired handling by her staff.

I am still supporting Edwards 100% but I am not so naive as to think our nominee will be anyone other than Barack Obama, are you?  

You know what?.... John Edwards is looking like a damn good  Attorney General to me.