What A Concept
Jan 18th, 2008 at 7:07 am by Susie
Rem Rieder in the American Journalism Review:
There was a delicious exchange between Chris Matthews and Tom Brokaw on MSNBC the night of the New Hampshire primary. Matthews was clearly distraught that his bêtes noires, the Clintons, looked as if they had survived to fight another day. The Hardballer churlishly rejected the notion that even if Clinton lost narrowly, it was still a remarkable Lazarus-like performance for her.
Then he agonized: If we can’t believe the polls, how, oh how, will we be able to pick the winners in advance?
Brokaw, like a very patient uncle, explained that there was another alternative. Rather than “stampede” the process, wait for the actual results to come in.
He may be on to something.
