Bill curry has always been out front of the posse catching up to El Diablo Hillario in the dusty deserts of the post-industrial wastelands. He's not only smart as a whip, but he has seen the Clinton Machine in flagrante delicto up close. Do not form mental images inside your head...too late, eh? He's so close to El Diablo he can almost touch the tails of the rear-most horses. He provides a brilliant take on the view from there today. And takes a good swot at the overreach of the 538's of her MSM colluders. It even has a Jack Sparrow quote. Extract and link below.

Democracy isn’t algebra. Elections aren’t mere algorithms. A poll tells you more about the person who writes its questions than the few hundred who answer them or the millions who don’t. Polls have short shelf lives because people change their minds; gradually about issues, overnight about other people. Pollsters do message, not policy. They know we’re angry but haven’t a clue why. Here’s a hint: One party denies the reality of climate change, the futility of modern warfare and the humanity of millions of our fellow citizens. Neither will admit that our democracy is dying and taking our middle class with it. We need help making this choice, not predictions as to the choice we’re about to make.

While we’re on the subject of life’s mutability, a word about party rules: The first thing to know about them is that like Captain Jack Sparrow’s pirate’s code, they’re “more like what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.” This is perfectly legal and sometimes even fair. All conventions are gaveled open by temporary chairs under temporary rules because no convention can bind the next one any more than one Congress can bind the next.

So no current poll can tell you how many delegates each candidate will have and no current rule can tell you for sure what those delegates can or will do. Delegates elected in primaries or caucuses will surely vote as pledged. If one candidate has pledged delegates comprising more than 50 percent of all delegates, that should end the discussion and the process. If not, all bets are off.

Clinton’s and Trump’s fates may rest on legal processes or leaked tax returns or speech transcripts. Democrats may figure out that Clinton’s a neoliberal and they aren’t. Republicans may decide Trump is a fascist and they aren’t. No boss can defy the will of either party’s base without risking permanent, even fatal damage. But the history of political conventions makes one thing clear: a plurality is not a majority. Frontrunners arriving at conventions without majorities often go home empty handed for the simple reason that a majority of delegates don’t want them.

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/15/can_hillary_stay_in_the_race_if_she_lose...

Salon's front page is full of Clinton denouncements today. Interesting. Clinton is already having a perfectly horrible day, which seems to be heading for a nasty surprise for her when the poll closes tonight. Go Bernie!

Peace be with us, if we work for it with peaceful hearts,
gerrit