After Clinton picked up a 21-point lead in a New Hampshire poll and has started moving into the 50+ in national polling Barack Obama announced today that he doesn’t believe in polls. His campaign has also been saying that there is a groundswell of support for Obama in some kind of hidden population not being counted.

Does this sound familiar? It should, it represents the same argument Karl Rove was making just hours before the Republicans hit the slaughterhouse during the 2006 elections. Rove joyfully maintained for weeks and months that the media had gotten it wrong, were looking at the wrong group of people in their polling and that his own numbers would prove everyone wrong.

I also seem to remember that in 2004 Democrats were announcing far and wide that they too had hidden numbers with thousands of new registrations going through and college students active in a way that they had never been before through the Internet. The outcome? A very dark night for Dems.

So, frankly, I don’t buy it. As things are looking if Clinton doesn’t make a major mistake in the next three months we could be looking at a MASSIVE blowout. Yes that is my prediction, not an endorsement but a prediction.