“Like so many things, it was inevitable until it didn’t happen”…
For that, Roger Kimball gets the line of the day award. I admire his tenacious hopefulness.
People tell me that all the ducks are lining up in a row for Obama. To which I say: “Fine. But are the voters?†A few months ago I said I didn’t think Hillary would get the nomination. Everyone looked at me sadly and said, “Poor chump, don’t you see it’s inevitable?†Like so many things, it was inevitable until it didn’t happen. That’s one reason I dislike this constant recourse to polls–weekly, daily, hourly polls, polls, polls. But “RealClearPolitics/Gallup/Zogby/Rasmussen says . . .†Meaning what? That voting is a superfluous exercise? “Oh no, you must vote, but really the polls say . . .†I say, forget the polls: just vote. You might be surprised!
I last commented on the polls, polls, polls right here.
Woodwork:
It is, to say the least, obsessive…and why not say, geekish.
29 October 2008, 7:54 am.
In their own peculiar obsessions the Joe-6-pacs of this land are mere pikers in their affection and fascination for wins-n-losses, team/player statistics and odds-making. It is clearly the Geeks that will inherit the earth in a world that has nervously anatomized the sublime fervor of faith and alchemically wedded it’s dying corpse to the dull and cruddy power of the political minion — geek.
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Someone should kick some sand in their face — like Joe-the-Plumber… or Roger.