Dangerous Lull For Hillary and Barack

We meant to say this before we left for Spring break, but better late than never:

The relatively long interval between primaries at this juncture is a dangerous time for both candidates. Without the daily grind of the horserace--sprinting from one nominating contest to another--the media inevitably turn to other issues, desperate to fill their news cycles.

Moreover, the political blogosphere can't stand a vacuum--we have to have SOMETHING to write about.

It's at this point that trivial matters start getting blown up. This distant supporter of Obama, or that low-level aide to Hillary, said something silly, stupid, offensive, or just inane. The campaigns, too, have nothing better to do than to play up some little irrelevancy. All of a sudden it gets to be like last summer when, for some bizarre reason, Rudy "Bad Strategery" Giuliani was inexplicably leading polls for the GOP nomination (remember him? he did earn one delegate).

It's during periods like this that the candidates seem small, inconsequential. While Barack and Hillary are sniping at each other over trivia, McCain is visiting Iraq and doing his best to look presidential.

We look forward to getting back into the horserace again--but it's still four more weeks to Pennsylvania!