PSoTD

David Broder's op-eds are not predictable. The reason isn't because of what his opinion will be on a given topic, but what his topic matter of choice is. But he is consistently conservatively shallow in his thinking and can be counted on to display a lack of understanding to how those not in the mediacracy sees things.

I find the disdain to which he considers the immediately polling after the debate quite telling. Any "pro-tilt" towards Obama as a result of the debate is about the political and financial climate, not about how Obama and McCain actually performed during the debate. Whether this is true or not isn't proved by anything and exists only in the minds of Broder and people like him. It diminishes the assessment skills of people who watched the debate in a preconceived way - short of McCain barfing on himself trying to dislodge his tie which he had swallowed while angrily bellowing to kill Iranians, David S. Broder was going to declare McCain the winner in this debate. The only question was whether he was going to write about it.