Beltway Pundits Proven Wrong

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from this year’s primaries, it’s this: Don’t trust Washington’s talking heads.

These are the people who told us, for example, that we would never nominate another senator for president; that the Clintons had the black vote locked up; and that Rudy Giuliani was the inevitable Republican nominee. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

And now, for weeks, the same pundits have been demanding that Hillary Clinton drop out of the race because she’s only hurting the party. But the latest Washington Post/ABC poll shows how wrong they are again.

Sixty-four percent of Democrats say Hillary should stay in the race. And 85 percent of Democrats say they’re confident the party will unite behind Obama in the fall.

The same chattering class says the long Democratic primary is only helping McCain. Wrong again. The ABC-Post poll shows Barack Obama already beating John McCain by 51-44.

So remember this the next time you see the usual suspects bloviating on Fox, MSNBC or CNN. It’s just like back in the Clinton impeachment days, when they insisted the American people wanted Bill Clinton out of the White House. They were wrong then, and they’re wrong now.

Beltway pundits may speak with authority, but they don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.

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