The news media is doing it again this morning, and they're making another YUGE mistake among the plethora of them they've made so far in covering this election.
What is this big mistake, you ask?
They continue to treat Hillary Clinton as the presumptive Democratic nominee, and all of their coverage is heavily slanted that way. They're snubbing a candidate who is very much alive, has already run a remarkable campaign, and is about to stage a political comeback for the record books.
Bernie Sanders is still drawing enormous and wildly enthusiastic crowds on the stump, is still raising millions of dollars, and is still polling far ahead of Hillary in a head-to-head race against Donald Trump.
Her poll numbers are going down. Bernie's continue to rise. A new poll this morning re-emphasizes her two big problems: people don't trust her, and they simply don't like her.
Hillary announced this morning that she'll be putting once-again philandering husband Bill in charge of the economy. First, the economy was in collapse when he left office, and second, it presumes an awful lot.
Hillary, you haven't even won Kentucky yet! That's what I call Chutzpah!
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| These are made out of brass, and Hillary Clinton is an avid collector. She knows it takes a lot of these to have genuine Chutzpah. |
Now for Hillary, having chutzpah is not necessarily a bad thing. It may be the factor that's gotten her through a pretty dismal primary season, considering she was supposed to have been the nominee by acclamation.
Instead, she's having a hard time beating what would normally be a candidate who couldn't get two votes: an avowed Jewish socialist nearly 10 years beyond retirement age, who looks rumpled in a new $2,000 suit.
This should be worrisome and a hint to party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the rest of her stubborn leadership. As I've said before, they are totally tone deaf.
We'll see if the C factor can get Hillary a victory in Kentucky tomorrow. A Hillary win there could shut Bernie's campaign down.
She's been stumping there hard because Kentucky's primary is open to registered Democrats only, and to date, Bernie has not done well in closed primaries. It's Hillary's last chance to stop him.
If Bernie can break the pattern, that would be four big primary wins in a row for him with nine contests remaining. They include New Jersey and the wide-open primary in delegate-rich California, A Sanders sweep would change the Democratic party's picture.
The media has already been burned and Berned so many times for their bad punditry in this election, they must either be way off their game or part of the Hillary machine. Neither speaks well of them.
No matter, even the media can't hold back the building groundswell they've been ignoring, relatively speaking. The facts on the ground will compel them to cover Bernie Sanders more seriously after he takes Kentucky.
Hillary may own the C word, but Bernie's got the two M words: Mojo and Momentum.
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