Life’s Certainties
May 23rd, 2008Who decided that it would be a good use of the LA Times’ resources to write an article about a poll that proves Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would beat John McCain in November? I know it is meant to show that “contrary to what Clinton argues, Obama wins this big state by a bigger margin than she does” but does that matter? Everybody knows that California is going for the Democrats. You want news? The Democrats will win New York, and Illinois. McCain will win in Texas. And otherwise wonderful news organizations will focus on not just polls that might mean something but polls like this one that doesn’t demonstrate a damn thing worth demonstrating.