Stunned onlookers didn't expect this. McCain wins with Wisconsin to go over the top. David Axelrod urges Obama to contest it. The loss of Brett Favre was too much.
As the Left contemplated this potential triumph, it was Sarah Palin that did it. The plucky Middle Class in Middle America ante up'd agin and even the Al Franken victory was no recourse.
Unless you're Rush Limbaugh, it seems fashionable to pick Obama as the winner at this point in the very long game. Polls, pundits and the rest of the world all seemed resigned to the prospect of an Obama world to come.
While it may seem stylish and fashionable to predict an Obama win, is anybody describing the essence of the transition to come ? Probably, but I don't really care about them as much as my own blog entry, so here's a vision of November 5th, 2008 and a little beyond . . .
Your candidate sucks. Know this as you prepare your guy for the fight in the fall. He just flipped on FISA & matching funds. Things he pledged not to do. Who hired Samantha Power and James Johnson ? I have have to say as an atheist, it was hard to get worked up about the Reverend Wright. But I do get worked up about ballot access and candidate debates. Both of which your guy fails miserably about. Now I hear he's going to help bail out multi-millionaire Hillary Clinton and her campaign debt, go figure. 
I suppose touchy feely crap is the stuff of modern political candidacies, but I'm still waiting for substance. I know the average Ivy League graduate in the MSM thinks those memoirs and books we're the right stuff, but I'm unswayed. But is he the darling that the disgruntled right would have us believe ? As far as I'm concerned the dude can't even bowl, so Harvard degrees in law are meaningless. There simply is no evidence that he understands economics or anything beyond the typical pandering of a main party politician. My vote for President of the United States has always been 'wasted', as a denizen of New York, there's no doubt that my fellow collectivist citizens and their deep desire to hope and have change will carry the day for Obama. This is just a quick protest note to goad your idealism a bit.
If you grew up reading MAD magazine you'll remember the zany Spy v. Spy. The operative idea being that two sides of the same game constantly seek advantage over the other while the whole time just destroying one another. Republicans and Democrats are splintered. Whatever teary eyed impression one takes from the Iowa game, it is in fact that the two major parties in the US are divided.
While a virtual three way tie has made Obama the top lawyer in the Donkey barn, the evangelic enigma that is Mike Huckabee has only stirred an already muddy river. Thompson, McCain and Paul came into a virtual tie for third. All three stand a decent chance to do something in New Hampshire, while Huckabee and Rudy will have to play on the sidelines. Romney strikes at 20%+ throughout most of the process. The most disheartening part is the lovefest the MSM has with the horse race.