I have to be honest with you and say I am always amazed when the media asks a candidate “are you planning on dropping out” BEFORE a vote is cast. Every general and Super Tuesday election I hear people on the West Coast decry the fact that vote totals come in three hours before they vote feeling it influences the election. So what does a month of asking “are you going to drop out, because we don’t expect you to win” do to a candidate? I am being serious here.

Before every primary the media has asked every candidate who wasn’t running away with the polling whether they would drop out. Now obviously no one expected Dennis Kucinich to sweep New Hampshire or Iowa or any state, but could we at least have given him the courtesy of letting the voters say “we don’t like you” before the Associated Press jumped to it?

The lunacy involved here is staggering. Time and again we’ve seen polling, including exit polling that was wrong, especially in cases where the election was close. If one candidate is three or four points within range, we don’t know that the poll is accurate until people actually turn out. Weather, world events, gaffes, any number of things can change a person’s vote the day of the election. Just because three hundred people called on landlines in a small sample show one thing, we have no idea when things are close, how the vote will actually turn. Yet, what do we have? “Are you going to drop out, are you going to drop out, are you going to drop out?” LUNACY!