Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Amidst all of the Hack-a-Shaq, the Indians finding some offense and catching some EPL Fan Zone, I am watching the results of the Pennsylvania primary. Once again, toss the polling. I saw an MSNBC poll early on with Clinton having a 46-43% margin. I'm not sure what that means, except the Undecided skew toward Clinton. It's becoming fairly obvious, those that consider themselves "late deciders" go for Clinton. I'm reading "late deciders" as "those who can't vote for a black president". So the vote totals climb toward that magic 10% margin.

83% polled on MSNBC said race wasn't important. I'm not sure most of white America would go on the record honestly about that, in person or over the phone. I think most of those polled think that somehow it'll catch up with them if they go negative on that question. It just bugs me, when the country is ripe for change, we seem to want status quo. So, it's off to Indiana and North Carolina, where those folks could not have imagined the spotlight turns to them. And, unlike Poland, don't forget about Guam before them.

And one other thing. Why so long for beginning results to trickle in and coincidentally, no network willing to call the race early either way. Seems strange for a 10% result, there was so much drama at the start of everyone's coverage.

Meal of Links

16 burning TV questions. Hey, a "Twin Peaks" question (which, as always, is WTF?), and "Sledge Hammer" gets a mention.

Bruce Campbell sits for a chat. He remains one of my favorites.

The real story about gas prices. The last refinery built in the U.S. was in 1976. That seems to be a contributing factor.

Exercise Yard

S. and I went to the Cavs game last night. Hey, I got my "Raisinets" shirt, this time sponsored by FirstMerit. Everything you read or saw about the game was true. Certainly the best game since the big trade and LeBron is certainly making a mess out of the Wizards, who proved they aren't very good. Be prepared for the "whiteout" for Game 3. Doesn't matter much, because of the blowout in Game 2. BTW, the audio from that Alltel commercial, you know "Wizard!", is being played quite a bit during the game and it remains funny.

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