A Big Win?

While it was important for Hillary Clinton to win the New Hampshire Primary, it seems Big Media is going a tad overboard in the result's significance. She has a big fight with Barack Obama running neck and neck with her and John Edwards not far behind, and if she took second place in New Hampshire, she would still only trail the Obama machine by a few delegates before going into the larger Clinton-friendly states. Also, a win in New Hampshire settles nothing as far as her ability to overcome the charm and charisma of The Obamanator. With the news coverage she got after losing in Iowa, it would seem the mainstream media spent a bit too much time on Clinton's tears incident and put too much emphasis on such a small state and its overall significance.

So far, both Obama and Clinton have run "celebrity" campaigns with little or no substance. Obama is a captivating speaker and Clinton has a captivating speaker on her side in the form of her husband. The democratic primary voters right now are voting like this is a high school election -- like a popularity contest. While Fred Thompson is miserably failing while employing the same strategy on the republican side, the Democratic voters are still under the spell of wither of the two front-runners. The only Democrat with a chance to win that is actually talking about the issues is John Edwards, but the polls show nobody on the Left side wants to hear about policy -- they like to hear the word "change" every other sentence than deal with how to implement it.

When will all of this backfire on the Dems? When Clinton or The Obamanator get chosen as their nominee and the demagoguery would have less of a shine when debating in a general election. While political strategists still seem to think the American people are idiots, looking down on them and insulting their intelligence will come back to bite their candidates.