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Pennsylvania Outcome So Far… More Fade-in Than Wild Win

April 22nd, 2008
By DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, Assistant Editor, TMV Columnist

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Some posit, there is a zero percent lead by either Democratic candidate as the polls close in Pennsylvania. The Senators Clinton and Obama are presently neck and neck.

The certainly of the polls from yesterday, are not so clearly certain tonight.

Perhaps that’s because there appear to be entrenched myths can that hamper insightful analysis of office seekers

the one with the most ad money, wins

the one who is the nicest, wins

the one who polls best, wins

the one who is the most phlegmatic and pragmatic, wins

the one with the most super-delegates of this moment, wins

the one who is least unliked, wins

the one who is most aggressive, wins

the one who is most experienced, wins

the one who has the most women, men, young, hobbits, wins

Maybe. But, perhaps not.

Too much coverage of the campaign seems interchangeable with sports handicapping and bookie talk before a contest.

What and who is left out as all the analyses are pouring in?

The young, who do not answer land lines

The older people who would rather tell you their social security numbers before they would willingly break their cultural customs and reveal who they really voted for

The people from the working class who fall way below the radar of pollsters; they dont answer phones; they’re working three jobs

Huge numbers of brand new citizens who have been naturalized and who often have had more civic education than people born in the US, and these new citizens are deeply commited to voting

Most often dividing people by race, class, education, income, or other efforts, making divergent groups seem homogenous… instead of characterizing them by importance of issues to each, seems it can skew poll results…

which in turn can influence some.. to vote… or not vote, especially when one candidate looks like a lock-in.

There are additional voting groups which have not been added in to the polls summations. Sort of like leaving one foot off the bathroom scale when one weighs oneself.

There’s a uneasy sense that the dial has not been giving just weight for some time.



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    I finally shut off the TV tonight. Certain obnoxious pundits were driving me up the blinkin' wall. I find myself emotionally so drawn into this presidential race, almost obsessive about trying to divine the future from the most minute details as though they were tea leaves or I Ching sticks. Maybe it's because there is so much at stake -- we've seen the kind of havoc the wrong leader can wreak, but I also find myself spiraling into an unhealthy state and I need to find a way to regain some balance. I mean, one big clue was my romantic dream last night involving Secret Service agents assigned to me. And why was I dreaming about handsome SS agents? Because I was also dreaming I was a candidate's family member. Whoa ... . . time to regroup. I need to practice some serious self de-programming!
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    The best way to de-program, Leebot, is certainly to drop by political blogs like TMV. ;)
 
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