Conventional wisdom in GD2004 is...

[WilliamPitt]

[wyldwolf]

1. What sometimes is labled "conventional wisdom" here is often laughable

[mitchum]

2. More conventional than wisdom

including my own

[patricia92243]

3. What does conventional wisdom mean?

[wyldwolf]

4. Reliable, tried and true established fact based on prior experience?

?

[ulysses]

9. all of which has meant what this year?

?

[wyldwolf]

11. Goose Egg

[Fovea]

5. Try this as a thought experiment... Complete the blanks in this sentence..

This election is very like the election of ----.

[fabius]

8. This election is not like any I've ever seen.

Maybe it's the most like '76 from the Democratic side, having a bunch of really interesting candidates. Can't think of anything else.

[diamondsoul]

6. Interesting poll, Will.

But some of us aren't operating on "Conventional Wisdom". We're working on renewed hope.

[fabius]

7. We're not any more reliable than the pundits.

But we do get some interesting inside scoops. For instance, Kerry's soul-searching meeting about what was going wrong. Every campaign has a moment where they have to do this, and it's fascinating if they can come back.

[mlawson]

10. But Will, many of us are not conventional ourselves,

so why should our wisdom be???? :-)

[MoonRiver]

12. We need a third choice that says:

Conventional wisdom on GD2004 is an oxymoron.

[Terwilliger]

13. reliable in what sense?

Conventional wisdom doesn't really exist here...it's a free-for-all of various ideas and streams of consciousness

[DjTj]

14. We sure as heck didn't know who was going to win Iowa...

...CW here is definitely out of touch with reality.

[Ivote]

15. The pundits

are getting paid for unconventionally having no wisdom.... we do it for nothing