Here comes the Fat Lady

It's interesting that last week you could find polls for every race updated almost daily and this week I can’t find a recent poll to save my life. Maybe in the end that will be good since the polls have been driving this race rather than the other way around. If a candidate is doing poorly in the polls his supporters start to doubt their judgement and his numbers erode further.

This seems to have been a better week for Clark with the media . Not the national media per se but the local media. There seems to be lots of coverage of Clark’s rather mild attacks on Kerry and Edwards. Its interesting that when Wes is sticking to positive themes like his vision for America his coverage is negative or minimal, but when he attacks his rivals that becomes big news. It’s the train wreck mentality of the media negative {bad news} sells good news is ignored. As I said in the previous post Clark has nothing to lose at this point. None of the attacks have been personal or nearly as nasty as he got from Kerry who questioned his Democratic credentials in New Hampshire.

It looks like Kerry will be the nominee, much as I hate to admit it. Not because I dislike Kerry, but because I like Clark so much. I think it’s time for as outsider to be elected. Both parties have been coopted by big business, the Democrats less so than the Republicans, and maybe Clark could have changed that. Of course I also believe in the tooth fairy and santa claus. Make no mistake, however, Kerry is infinitely better than Bush and this blog will support him wholehardedly.

But as someone whose identity escapes me at the moment once said, “it ain’t over till the fat lady sings” and she ain’t sung yet. So go Wes win one for the gipper.

Mickey