Op-Ed: Clinton beat Obama, McCain beat Romney, now watch the media spin on the polls

It ain’t over. This is a real contest. Hillary Clinton has spiked the polls, and most of the editorials, and won in New Hampshire. Clinton’s win was a fairly comfortable 9 per cent or so ahead of Obama. Edwards got a bit less than half of Obama’s vo

The electoral race has been a bit full of itself lately, and the simple fact that the Midwest and the East aren’t the same demographic seems to have slipped past the pundits. The New York Times, agog, if not aghast, has covered its home page with details, editorial sidesteps, and the beginnings of yet another analysis. There are 50 states, that’s been two of them, and there’s a few to go yet. This will go on until February, when the real contest will be decided. Meanwhile, John McCain has done much the same thing for the Republicans. Written off, ignored, and now he’s back in. The race was McCain-Romney, and nobody else quite cut it, in terms of votes. Anyone who’s ever watched an American election should know that the East and South are the big tickets, with California. The Mid West doesn’t dictate to the electoral colleges. We can now expect days if not weeks about why the polls were right, it was the results that were wrong. Even the political press feels a need to justify its existence occasionally. Otherwise, people might think they were idiots. It’s going to be a very long year, folks, if every second of this campaign gets this level of scrutiny, and everyone’s so consistently wrong. For the advertising industry, Christmas comes every four years. You'd never guess, would you?