Delaware Liberal

As you can see from the charts below, McCain was the underdog from wire to wire. Following George Bush was a mugs game, and I'm frankly surprised that someone with McCain's political instincts undertook such foolishness. Maybe he was hoping to line up against Hilary? Anyway, after a momentary glimpse of 50/50 upon wrapping up the nomination, an Obama win was never really in question. The Obama/Romney chart is altogether different. The generic Republican had a chance for a while, but you can see that the GOP primary really took a toll on Romney. Once Obama put away the rope-adope, and clicked into campaign mode, he opened a huge lead on Romney. A lead so wide that when Romney locked down the nomination, it registered as a blip among the IEM bettors.

There is something to be said for polling averages, as it calms you down and cures your whiplash after reading through each new poll.

Barack Obama may have the mojo — and I stress may — to withstand the fecal tsunami of GOP super PAC attack ads this year. But four years from now — unless the Democrats have become vastly more friendly to the interests of billionaires than they already are — how is the first Democratic non-incumbent to run in a Citizens United world possibly going to compete with right-wing billionaire cash?

He is such a huge campaign asset, and so great at bringing the working class heat, that it is almost too perfect that the Republicans picked Mitt Romney.

In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.