So it goes
As of this writing, the Democrat race is split pretty evenly between Clinton and Obama, and McCain seems to be solidly ahead on the GOP side. Libby Copeland in the WaPo has an entertaining piece that captures a bit of why the MSM like the Arizona Senator:
“I’m always nervous and I’m always superstitious and I’m always a pain in a certain part of the anatomy to most of my friends and associates.”…He teases a reporter (for being late) and supporter Sen. Lindsay Graham (for being “not so smart”). He watches the Super Bowl in a hotel lobby bar. He sprints from Boston to New Jersey to New York to San Diego (for just a second) to Phoenix over the course of two days. During conversations with reporters, he banters and laughs — laughs so hard at one point he snorts. At rallies, he tells this joke about a lawyer and a catfish, and introduces his spry 95-year-old mother, telling the story of how she went to France but they told her she was too old to rent a car. “So she bought a car and drove around France!” McCain says. “Atta girl, Mother!”…
“I’m sorry it’s not 40 years earlier,” says an attorney named Neil Rossman, 62, who’s also at the Boston rally. “He looks tired. But I’ll take him as tired.” It’s a character thing, says Rossman, a Democrat who once vowed never to vote Republican and says that “I’d shave my head and move to Burma” before voting for Mitt Romney. The truth is, Rossman says of McCain, “I don’t consider him to be a Republican…As a matter of fact, he’s almost a Democrat.”
You may like it or you may not. But as of this moment, most commentators on the right and left alike seem to believe that one way or the other, there will be a real or “almost” Democrat in the White House in 2009.