CNN is dumber than I though

I watched Late Edition for the first time ever this weekend. I can now say that CNN has the Stupidest Team in Politics. For not other reason that in the hopes of sparking doubt, or appearing impartial, or just out of plain old ignorance the CNN equivalent of MSNBC's Chuck Todd, one Bill Schneider , spouts off a California poll that shows Obama up by more than 20 points - then proceeds to twist that Obama's national lead is based completely on the number difference from California. What he does not do is include Texas, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Mississippi in this count as overwhelming numbers for McCain, because the people who live there are stupid. No really, look up the education numbers. It's not impolite and elitist if it's true - and there is no reason to be proud about being stupid.

It's think kind of twisting of numbers that really gets me pissed off. In a way it might be good, it could send more Obama devotees to the polls on election day, but mostly it paints the picture that this race is closer than it is.

John McCain has been putting out negative television ads before his own convention. Talk about going negative early. The first one to go negative is usually the one who is going to lose. Not only that, most campaigns wait until the actual general election begins. John McCain's own campaign knows they are going to lose unless the do something drastic. Like they have already done. There is a argument to be made that they just did it not to get buried during the Obama "the world already thinks I'm president" tour - but either way it illustrates a profound desperation.