Superdelegates: Pay Attention!

Campaign season is getting to people:

Authorities said brother-in-laws Jose Ortiz and Sean Shurelds were involved in a verbal altercation over Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton when the argument escalated into a stabbing inside their family home on Honey Locust Court in Upper Providence.

My extended family, too, is a house divide. Thus the urgent need for the primaries to get wrapped up before Passover lest this tragedy repeat itself. In all seriousness, though, Marc Ambinder has a bunch of reporting to suggest that the race is unlikely to drag on into April. My predictions are always wrong, but it looks like Obama will win Texas and Clinton will be forced to drop out.

Comments

Noooo! Endorsement of DOOOOOOM!!1!

Posted by socratic_me | February 26, 2008 11:18 AM

Damn it, Matt, now you've jinxed him.

Posted by LaFollette Progressive | February 26, 2008 11:19 AM

Noooo! Prediction of DOOOOOOM!!1!

Come on, Matt. Call another Hillary win for us. Pretty please?

Posted by socratic_me | February 26, 2008 11:19 AM

Noooo! Prediction of DOOOOOOM!!1!

Come on, Matt. Call another Hillary win for us. Pretty please?

Posted by socratic_me | February 26, 2008 11:20 AM

It's Petey's support which is the real killer. He's backing Nader now.

Posted by otto | February 26, 2008 11:20 AM

Seriously, wtf? If I have to put up with two more months of this damn race now, I'm blaming you Yglesias.

That was totally uncalled for.

Posted by southpaw | February 26, 2008 11:27 AM

Calm down everyone, I presume Matt is still predicting a Clinton win in Ohio.

Posted by minderbender | February 26, 2008 11:29 AM

Matt, what the hell have you done?

Posted by fumphis | February 26, 2008 11:32 AM

but it looks like Obama will win Texas and Clinton will be forced to drop out.

You just ruined my day.

Now I have to get used to the idea of President Hillary Clinton.

What did they pay you, Matt? Did she have to "loan" herself more money?

Posted by SoCalJustice | February 26, 2008 11:37 AM

It's Petey's support which is the real killer. He's backing Nader now.

Is he really? Wow.

Posted by jbryan | February 26, 2008 11:38 AM

I imagine the rising passion of the campaign will elevate Matt's typos to the heights of Delphic prophecy. Cats will wind 'round his ankles while supplicants leave bronze bowls of olives...

Posted by serial catowner | February 26, 2008 11:41 AM

If this stretches to Passover, Matt'll be in trouble. That young lady is backing him down, with a drink in her hand.

http://flickr.com/photos/mcdermott/340959816/in/set-72157594451931245/

Posted by ferd | February 26, 2008 11:49 AM

My extended family, too, is a house divide.

My god, kid, can you write a single blog post without at least one ridiculous typo?

I thought, perhaps, your house is French, and it's been dee-veed-ay by the primaries and you were unable to add the accent, but in fact, divider is not a French verb.

Posted by MY strikes again | February 26, 2008 12:01 PM

Re "My extended family, too, is a house divide. Thus the urgent need for the primaries to get wrapped up before Passover lest this tragedy repeat itself "
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PASSOVER?

Look again at the article re the stabber -- that ain't a Jewish surname.

Marc Ambinder has passed the word to Doughat that one shouldn't debate with Yglesias in the kitchen --where there are blades lying around.

Posted by Don Williams | February 26, 2008 12:01 PM

As far as the Montgomery incident, welcome to Philly politics.

I'm waiting to see if John Street cuts Ed Randell.

Posted by Don Williams | February 26, 2008 12:06 PM

And it was the Hillary supporter wielding the knife.

Posted by blindjoedeath | February 26, 2008 12:15 PM

Not to mention that "house," being feminine in French, would necessitate an additional "e," thus rendering even that contortion erroneous.

Posted by fumphis | February 26, 2008 12:38 PM

"And it was the Hillary supporter wielding the knife"

And he was a republican! (true)

Posted by Judson | February 26, 2008 12:44 PM

You'd still be missing the accent aigu on "divide," too. Like this: dividé. Or: dividée. If that were French.

Posted by maison | February 26, 2008 1:22 PM

You bastard!

I demand you even out your record by offering a series of predictions on where the sun will rise in the morning, the likelyhood of the Chicago Cubs winning the world series, what will happen to a cannonball released from the top of the leaning tower of pisa, etc.

Posted by Diablevert | February 26, 2008 1:24 PM

no!! obama is doomed

Posted by Korha | February 26, 2008 2:09 PM

There's a grammar error we can't pin on Matthew, though --- CBS3 apparently doesn't know that the plural of brother-in-law is brothers-in-law, not brother-in-laws.

Posted by Adam Villani | February 26, 2008 2:50 PM

Matt finally gets something right: that his predictions are always wrong.

So, of course, he tries to JINX HIMSELF into making his earlier prediction that Clinton will win succeed by reversing it and predicting Obama will win.

This is like trying to explain how Skynet even knows John Connor sent Resistance fighters back in time in order to send a Terminator after them in Episode 2.

The only rational explanation here is that in an alternate time-line, Clinton wins, but Matt was a belly-dancer instead of a pundit in that time-line anyway, so it didn't count.

Up next: we try and convince Matt that not only are all his predictions wrong, but so are most, if not all, of his opinions.

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | February 26, 2008 11:37 PM

never bring a chokehold to a knife fight.
i stole that from someone. but it cracked me up.

Posted by merlallen | February 27, 2008 2:45 AM