Bill Kristol just emailed me to encourage you to read this Jay Cost item on Hillary Clinton's "inevitability." Writes Cost:
What we are witnessing today is a perfect example of the next stage of the media echo chamber. Media elites have furiously talked up Clinton for three weeks. Because the voters are not paying much attention, they have picked up on this talking up and regurgitated it back to the media in the form of this poll. The media believes it has found independent evidence that Clinton is unstoppable, so the talking up will be ratcheted up. How does this process end? Very simply. Starting this month, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton drown out the media with their $150 million. They start in Iowa. Then they move on to Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and then the entire country. In so doing, they engage the electorate - which then makes a real selection between the candidates. It's called a campaign. It has not yet begun. The real one, at least, has not yet begun.
Cost makes sure to say he makes no guarantees Obama will win. He just knows it will be a huge fight.