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The presidential primary season ought not to be a looked at as a horse race.  What the folks of Iowa want is not necessarily related to what the folks of New Hampshire want, ditto Michigan and South Carolina, etc.  In other words, while I can understand how “Hillary seems to be doing well among group X” and “McCain is drawing support from group Y” or “Biden isn’t doing well and is likely to quit” are somewhat reasonable interpretations of what’s going on, primary\/caucus-wise, the whole “momentum” thing strikes me as silly.  I mean, are the folks in South Carolina really going to vote for candidate X because s\/he did well in a previous primary?  How stupid is that?<\/p>\n

I can sort of understand the funding thing (which is what has an actual effect from the whole “momentum” phenomenon), but this whole “Obama is in the lead!  No, Hillary is catching up!” kind of horse race thing strikes me as extremely silly.<\/p>\n

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