I also think that some MSM outlets were playing hanky-panky with the polling results. Remember: the MSM has an unofficial “all Democrats all the time” policy. The MSM took a severe hit in their credibility (and deservedly so) by defending Slick Willy 24/7 during his pants-down presidency. They do not want to have to spend the next four years taking more lumps to protect Hilly the Hun and want a fresh Democrat face without the ethical sleaze of Clinton Inc.

But the Hun is a monster the MSM created, and in the end I suspect that they will have no choice but to bow to her wishes. The alternative is to tell the truth – and risk having Republicans win.

1. Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67, when Fulbright was still a segregationist. Fulbright became Clinton’s “mentor.”
2. In April 1985, Governor Bill Clinton signed Act 985 into law, making the birthdates of Martin Luther King Jr. (the preeminent leader of the civil-rights movement) and Robert E. Lee (the general who led the Confederate army) state holidays on the same day. Of course, the word “segregation” never passed Clinton’s considerable lips, but the (uncoded) message he was sending to certain of his white constituents could not have be clearer.
3. Clinton took no steps during his twelve years as governor to repeal a Confederate flag law: Arkansas Code Annotated, Section 1-5-107, provides as follows:
(a) The Saturday immediately preceding Easter Sunday of each year is designated as ‘Confederate Flag Day’ in this state.
(b) No person, firm, or corporation shall display an Confederate flag or replica thereof in connection with any advertisement of any commercial enterprise, or in any manner for any purpose except to honor the Confederate States of America. [Emphasis added.]
(c) Any person, firm, or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).

In 1989, then-Gov. Bill Clinton was sued as one of three top Arkansas officials responsible for the intimidation of black voters in his state as part of a legal action brought under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, NewsMax.com has learned.
And a year earlier the U.S. Supreme court ruled that Clinton had wrongfully tried to overturn the election of a black state representative in favor of a white Democrat.
In a related 1988 case, Clinton had tried to replace a duly elected African-American state representative with a white candidate, only to be stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruling came as the then-governor was fighting another court battle to preserve racial profiling in his state, a tool that Clinton later criticized while president as a “morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice.”
But a decade earlier he approved the profiling of Hispanics by Arkansas State Police as part of a drug interdiction program in 1988, the Washington Times revealed in 1999.
“The Arkansas plan gave state troopers the authority to stop and search vehicles based on a drug-courier profile of Hispanics, particularly those driving cars with Texas license plates,” the Times said.
“A federal judge later ruled the program unconstitutional,” the paper reported. “A lawsuit and a federal consent decree ended the practice – known as the ‘criminal apprehension program’ the next year.”
Then-Gov. Clinton, however, not only criticized the profiling ban; “at one point, [he] threatened to reinstate the program despite the court’s ruling,” the Times said.
Hearing Clinton’s condemnation of racial profiling in 1999, Roberto Garcia de Posada, executive director of the Hispanic Business Roundtable, complained that the then-president “had been a strong supporter of racial profiling against Hispanics in the past.”
After he was sued in the late 1980s by the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund for failing to enforce the Voting Rights Act in Arkansas, then-Gov. Bill Clinton suggested to a group of pro-segregation whites that they were being unfairly targeted by civil rights laws as a result of the South’s loss in the Civil War.
“The meeting turned sour when one of the local whites demanded to know why, in his view, the whites were always made to pay for others’ problems. Other whites in the group began to echo his charge. …” “Bill Clinton, the lead defendant in the case, took to the podium to respond. In a tone of resignation, Clinton said, ‘We have to pay because we lost.’” Clinton was referring to the South’s Civil War loss.
Bill Clinton spent Wednesday afternoon playing golf at a country club accused of discriminating against blacks and Jews. Jake Siewert, Clinton’s rep, confirmed it was the second time Clinton has played at the Indian Creek Country Club about 20 miles north of Miami. He first played there a year and a half ago. Siewert said, “All venues are fully vetted,” and dismissed allegations of racism and anti-Semitism as “not true.”
“There’s no question about it, the club has anti-Semitic policies in place to keep out Jews,” said Earl Barber, who was on the club’s board for 14 years, and a member for 22. Barber, along with Alvah Chapman, a former chairman of Knight Ridder, and M. Anthony Burns, a trucking magnate, resigned their club memberships because of its “membership policies.”
To add insult to injury, 14 of the island’s 34 homes are owned by Jews, and although they are denied access to the club, a portion of the residents’ property tax is used for the club’s upkeep. Miller notes that he refused to meet Clinton during his 1999 visit to Indian Creek because the president was playing at the anti-Semitic club. The snub even made the local news.

When Jeb Bush was slated to pay a visit to the club, Miller informed the Florida governor of the restrictive policies, and Bush cancelled.

There was no racism there.

So what happened?

The polls didn’t overstate the support for the black man (or any man, for that matter); they understated the support for Hillary Clinton. Pollster’s “standard estimate” put Clinton’s support at 30.4 percent as the polls opened. When the ballots were counted, she had 39 percent.

Thus, maybe the issue this morning shouldn’t be whether white New Hampshire voters hid their racist preferences from pollsters (or even the Iowa corollary — that in public caucuses as opposed to private voting booths, Democrats wanted to make a good show of voting for the black man). Instead, perhaps it should be why the pollsters didn’t have a better grasp on the support for Clinton — or how it was that undecided and late-changing voters left the race in play long after a lot of us thought it was over.

Could it be that the indies and undecideds, figuring that Obama had it wrapped, went over to the GOP side to vote for McCain?

Sullivan’s wrong too. Are we to believe that white women are closet racists but white men aren’t? Nonsense.

I think it’s much more simple–Boomer women drove the Chevy to the Levee for Hillary one more time. Was it because she teared up (and who cares whether or not it was calculated or not–it worked)? Probably so. Will it work again down the road? Who knows? I just have one word to say about that: Carville.

Oh: And don’t forget Edwards. The Punditocracy, now intone that “this isn’t like ‘American Idol.’ ” Well as Simon Cowell would snark, “Sorry! It is.” Anybody remember when the smart money said Melinda and Jordin would be in the finals and Blake would finish third?

Uh huh, uh huh . . .

I’m quite sure that most of the male Edwards voters would have picked Obama as their second choice.

Anyway, as for me: I’m just glad that Iowa and New Hampshire haven’t decided the whole thing.

Turn the page.

Two sides of the same coin I’d say…

Let’s ask Bobby Jindal or Ken Blackwell what they think.

It also ignores the feeling many have that the polls are rigged – they are – and their own desire to buck the MSM’s announced trends.

Polls can be nice when they indicate that folks are leaning your way, but in reality I pay little attention to them. Exit polls are just as meaningless.

As for closet racists … I think the Dems have far more overt racists – bigots – than the Party would like to believe. And more racists in their ranks than the Republicans. The closet racists are in the Democrat Party Leadership.

But, just a half-baked theory.

LINK

Poll Date Sample Obama Clinton Edwards Richardson Spread
RCP Average 01/05 – 01/07 – 38.3 30.0 18.3 5.7 Obama +8.3

It had Obama at 38, he got 37. It had edwards at 18, he got 17. It had richardson at 5, he got 5. Add up all the number here and you get 92.3. That 7.7 percent should be distributed around the lesser tier candidates and the undecided…

So, your telling me that hillary, took one percentage away from obama and edward each, then pulled in 7 percent of the 7.7 percent undecideds? That means she got 90% of the undecided vote. Thats unheard of, in fact they should have broken evenly and the election been obamas…

And these werent some half-assed local polls, these were polls with good reputations for accuracy.

It will go down as a hillary win, and nobody will really look at it closely, but something is seriously wrong with those numbers…