I just wish there was more polling for New York. My guess is there will be some either during the weekend or on Monday. It will be interesting to see any shifts. My bet is this race will be tightening.

I hate to say it, but the latest poll numbers seem to indicate the Hillary plan to "disqualify" Bernie had an effect.

The Daily News editorial board gave Bernie a rough time and front-paged a hit piece accusing him of callous disregard for the Sandy Hook victims. He was also accused, falsely, of not being able to answer questions about his plan to break up the big banks.

Hillary went on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where she was asked if Bernie is qualified to be President. Joe Scarborough has NEVER asked this about Trump or any other candidate. She hinted that Bernie isn't qualified, saying:

Well, I think he hadn’t done his homework, and he’d been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn’t really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of questions.

The Washington Post then summarized Hillary's "Morning Joe" interview with this headline: “Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president” (undoubtedly the headline Hillary wanted). CNN quoted the Clinton campaign's deputy communications director, Christina Reynolds, saying that Sanders is "unqualified." The CNN report described the new strategy as: "Disqualify him, defeat him, and unify the party later."

In a campaign speech, Bernie hit back by raising the bar on qualifications for the presidency:

"Now the other day, I think, Secretary Clinton appeared to be getting a little bit nervous," began Sanders in front of thousands at Philadelphia's Temple University Wednesday night.

"And she has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, quote-unquote not qualified to be president," he said as the raucous crowd booed.

"Well let me just say in response, to Secretary Clinton, I don't' believe that she is qualified if she is…through her Super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds," Sanders declared.

He went on to list a number of traits disqualifying someone from being president all directed squarely at Clinton — with the crowd cheering enthusiastically after each bullet point:

"I don't think that you are qualified if you get 15 million dollars from Wall Street through your Super PAC," said Sanders. "I don't think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don't think you are qualified if you've supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which has cost us millions of decent paying jobs."

But perhaps his most forceful blow — and certainly newest for a candidate who is known for rarely straying from his normal stump speech — came on the subject of the controversial "Panama Papers" and its relation to the Panama Free Trade Agreement.

"I don't think that you are qualified if you supported the Panama Free Trade Agreement! Something I very strongly opposed and which, as all of you know has allowed corporations and wealthy people all over the world to avoid paying their taxes to their countries," Sanders concluded.

Then the Hillary campaign immediately claimed victim status because she herself didn't say the actual words "Bernie is not qualified to be President" during the "Morning Joe" interview. Hillary's press secretary Brian Fallon tweeted: "Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was 'not qualified.' But he has now - absurdly - said it about her. This is a new low."

The Washington Post fact-checker sanctimoniously awarded Bernie "three Pinocchios" while letting his own paper off the hook, saying "Headline writing is an imperfect art."

Today Bernie walked back his previous criticism on NBC's "Today" show:

"Here's the truth. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I respect Hillary Clinton. We were colleagues in the Senate and on her worst day, she would be an infinitely better president than either of the Republican candidates," the Vermont independent said.

Asked if she's qualified, Sanders said, "Of course."