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[MadHound]

I come here to GD:P and one would think that the Obama campaign is seeing the wheels come off over this Wright deal. Great screaming headlines posted by hyperventilating Hillary supporters would lead one to believe that Obama's not only going to lose the nomination over this incident, but could very well be forced out of his Senate seat.

Meanwhile, out in the real world, I continue to hear very little on this matter. I consume more than my fair share of news, being a news and political junkie. However I also don't spend the majority of my time glued to the computer, rattling around in the blogosphere where the slightest incident is fired around the echo chamber of the Internet where it takes on far more significance than it should have. What I hear in the real world(where the vast majority of Americans live) is minimal. Sure, Faux news network has tried pushing this latest bullshit, but it really isn't catching on and they'll probably drop it out of their smear cycle in a day or two. I've yet to read it in any newspaper, either the NYT, St.L Post Dispatch, or a couple of local papers. Haven't heard a thing on NPR, nor on the nightly news. Sure, I understand that I could have missed the Wright story, I'm a normal human being, not glued to the tube, with other activities going on. But that is my point, in the real world, among people who lead "normal" lives, who don't have the time or inclination to be political junkies, the Wright incident is simply not on the radar, despite all the frantic hyperventilating by Hillary supporters.

So unless there's something else out there concerning Wright, something real and concrete, Hillary supporters might as well face the fact that the Wright incident isn't catching hold. People aren't buying into it, the MSM can't really sex it up or sell it, it's come out, fallen flat, and the real world is moving on.

So I suppose that you're going to have to go out and cook up some sort of other non-scandal to try and harm Obama, because this one isn't working. While you folks have worked yourselves into a lather over this thing, the real world looked, yawned, and Obama picked up more delegates. Nice try, now move along, because there's nothing to see here.