(Charleston, West Virginia)
I love polls; I hate polls!
They can be a road map to what is about to happen; and they can be incredibly wrong. In 1983, the night before the Chicago mayor's race, polls showed Richard Daley, Jr., and Jane Byrne way ahead of an obscure black Congressman from Chicago named Harold Washington. Washington won (as I predicted at the time, saying that polls inadvertently undersurvey minorities).
In New Hampshire, 2008, one poll had Barack Obama up 17 points fresh off his win in Iowa five days earlier. Hillary Clinton won, going away. So, polls indicating a 30- to 40-point Clinton lead for Tuesday in West Virginia make me suspicious. We'll see!

Obama spokesman Tom Bowen was not giving any quarter, based on the polls. "It's a clear choice," Bowen said. "Senator Obama or four more years of Bush's policies."



It occurs to me that now age 20, Waldron was just four years old when Clinton's husband was elected President. Does he even remember? "For some reason I remember the saxophone (Bill Clinton played) on Arsenio Hall," he says. I tell Cory that I was four years old when John Kennedy was killed and remember it pretty well. Even at age four, the political junkie thing can start!
I ask Waldron whether the staff is supporting Hillary for VP yet, should she fall short of the nomination. "We're not entertaining that possibility right now," he said. "We're still playing to win!"

Polls in West Virginia open at 6:30 a.m. I will be "live" at 7:45 with Ross McGowan on KTVU's "Mornings on Two." Keep it on www.MarkCurtisMedia.blogspot.com.
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