Despite a recent show in the polls [most recent NT Times] showing narrow margin in the overall popular vote by Hillary Clinton to the tune of [ /- error 3% statistically] 5 percentage points over her arch nemesis Barack Obama with 47% of voters considering her, to his  42% with 13% undecided. in light of the most recent foibles on the campaign stump heading toward the big DNC run-off in Denver this fall. Most of the pollsters are showing similar results. Zogby, Barna, Wall Street Journal and the Peer Research Institute are showing shadings of 3%-5% percentage points off the NY Times spot poll. On the Republican side of the isle, John McCain is uncontested, however is either tied with Obama in some polls or what would amount to a statistical dead head in the rest. So, what does this all mean?

Dean told AP back on March, 29th "

Let the media [Pro Obama] and the Republicans and the talking heads on cable television [again Pro Obama] attack and carry on, fulminate at the mouth,"

 said Dean to the Associated Press. "The supporters should keep their mouths shut about this stuff on both sides because that is harmful to the potential victory of a Democrat.", Having spoken that here is where we are: Hillary Clinton holds 1779 delegates to Barack Obama's 1968 pledged delegates. However, the popular vote keeps ebbing more and more toward Obama. Real Clear Politics reports the popular vote for the DNC a notch in favor of Obama reporting Obama at some 49.1% to Clinton's 47.7% - clearly a statistical dead heat. The DNC needs an enema to get to the root of what the situation is here. The party is divided between hard-line progressive on Hillary's side, which include the more socialist of the unions, radical feminists, enviromentalist... and the rest of the social "isms". Obama carries [clearly] the feely crowd, those"feel" America needs hope and change as his stump rhetoric would carry it. Social moderates are split right down the middle between he and McCain, what divides them is their position on the sanctity of life, alternative life style and environmental issues.

Hillary kind of reminds me of the redheaded step child that keeps insisting on having attention thrown her way. Good press or bad press, which is odd - because any morally clear candidate would run from sordid business. But I think Hillary voters and the publican by-in-large have gotten used to her antics, so for what it is worth, the spin cycle seems to work just fine on the Clinton machine so why change what people wouldn't trust as change anyway - that sentiment by the people would be fully earned. All indicators point toward a show down between the Jr. Senator from Illinois, and the veteran Senator from Arizona. Both have issues currently, some more severe than others.

Obama was speaking at a rather conservative Synagogue in Florida on the 22nd of this month, Obama took his happy-happy, joy-joy show on the road down there, and [well...] ended up contradicting himself regarding his position on meeting with Hezbolah or other terrorist entities within his first year in office if he were elected. He voiced this rather appeasist sentiment during the debates, and now is looking like he regrets heading to Florida. His statements got a good deal of mileage with conservative talk radio for a couple of days,  hosts such as Michael Medved and the respected Mark Styne had at him as well, but it seems no sticks it to themselves better than Obama himself.  In the McCain camp - John McCain withdrew his acceptance of support from Pastor John Hagee - move that may come back to haunt him, he is already on thin ice with Evangelicals as it is; especially over comments from a sound byte that were not played in their entirety and spun. Even talk show host Michael Medved [who being Jewish himself] found it hard to have taken the comments out of context, unlike Jeremiah Wrights words which in no way could be confused with benevolence.

The road may be rocky, but it looks as though super delegates are lining up behind a power broker nut-fest with the DNC, some heads will roll, but that is what they get for even setting up such a dastardly system - designed for leverage, but look what is happening? It will boil down to a Obama vs. McCain show down this November, and Hillary should not think she is above being voted out If there is anythign New Yorkers have is a memory - and that they can use against her.