The probable reaction from Obama supporters being confronted by Hillary, no doubt.

I know, I know.  I fell for the polls which predicted an Obama blowout in NH and so did just about everybody else, including, it seems, Hillary’s campaign.  There will be much hand-wringing by the pollsters on how they got it wrong, but the best explanation they’ll come up with is that NH is chock full of independents who didn’t make up their minds until the last minute.  Or until the last tear fell.  Hell, I don’t know.  However you slice or dice it, you can bitch-slap me into next week all you want, but when you’re finished with moi, turn around and spank all the pollsters and media outlets, will ya?  Thanks. 

All that aside, there will also be some long, hard number-crunching, soul-searching, political nit-picking and generalized blow-harding about “HOW SHE DID IT.” It really doesn’t matter at this point, but thank the fashion gods that she waited to wear that hideous outfit until her victory speech.  It hurt my eyeballs something awful.

Bottom line out of all this:  there’s no cakewalk to the nomination.  That’s a good thing.  Very good. 

Over on the Republican side of things, who cares?  By the way, was John McCain’s scripted speech not the worst 14 minutes in American politics of late?  I don’t fault anyone for having prepared remarks (hell, even Obama read from a TelePrompTer), but that sing-song delivery of McCain’s sounded so fake and rehearsed it made my teeth bleed.  All this time I believed Bush’s delivery was the most tortured thing inflicted upon America. 

I’ve been proven wrong again.