Just a thought, but perhaps without a Democratic primary to draw them away, the Hispanic vote came out in droves for McCain, thus handing him his margin and messing with polls that thought fewer Hispanics would be represented in the Republican primary.

But, I think this is the last state where the Dems are sitting out over their timing spat.  If that's the case, McCain's Hispanic bump will be smaller in upcoming tests, especially those across the South-West where Obama and Hillary will be courting them desperately.

Don't panic yet, Romneyans.  This could just be an anomaly of the calendar.

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Honestly, I needed a break.  Not from blogging, I'd done little enough of that, but from the whole blogosphere/politics world.  I felt it and myself getting too small, too petty over things that are large, very large (we are at war).

So I took a break.  I got married, I went to Europe.  I had a grand old time, and now I've returned to find it as small and annoying as it was when I left.

What's changed?  When I walked away last summer, only us crazy right-wingers believed that "The Surge" was working or could possibly work.  Now everyone admits it's working and Hillary! is taking credit for it.

Last summer, a huge public outcry killed a ridiculous immigration bill and made it clear that amnesty without security first was a non-starter for all Americans.  Now, everyone is still talking tough, but the Straight Talk Express and all the candidates on the left are still trying to legalize all the people here without truly stopping more from coming across.

It's funny.  No one can doubt that Americans want the border secured.  They've made that perfectly clear to the politicos.  Will the elected secure the border?  Or will they hold the status quo until people aren't looking anymore and then backdoor all the illegals?  An interesting test for "democracy".

The economy continues to chug along despite the mortgage bomb, but the media plays it like we're in the second Great Depression in an attempt to help the Democratic electoral chances.  Just keep talking about that recession and we'll have one soon.

Me, I've done my part for the economy, a wedding, a honeymoon and then Christmas; I've spent my share and then some.

So, I'm back and I'll try to do what I can to raise the level of discourse in my own little corner of the blog-world, but it is an election year and stupidity is flying from all corners.

When three candidates are playing fast and loose with Race (or being played by it), it's mud wrestling and no mistake.

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See here Via Protein Wisdom
 
The long and the short of it is that the Hillary! campaign assaults the press and threatens them by withholding access if they publish anything remotely negative about our sainted, former first lady.

Kind of reminds me of the deal CNN struck to maintain "access" to Iraq.  You can stay here and report, just don't say anything bad, or you have to leave.

Explain to me please what a reporter is doing if he is covering up instead of covering a politician?

And why oh why are they giving into this?  If Hillary! kicks a reporter off the bus for publishing something true and negative, all the other reporters should just keep beating on that story until the reporter in question is permitted back.  Every question in every presser should be "Where's Mr. Jones from the Jones Review?" until that reporter is brought back.

The press is always telling us how professional they are, and they certainly can act like a medieval guild when they want to, why not now?

Someone might infer that they like being nothing more than an arm of the Clinton press office, that they have goals somehow aligned with the Clinton campaign.  But that can't be, can it?

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