More Early Handicapping

Hillary’s pollster, Mark Penn, provides the numbers to back up Dick Armey’s worry that Hillary is a shoe-in.

OK, he doesn’t actually show us any numbers. Instead, in a short, Drudge-linked item from TheHill.com, Penn claims Hillary would win “in a landslide” if the election were held today. Me, I don’t follow polls this early in the game. I barely follow them during the election. Neither should you.

Remember that we’re only two weeks past Clinton’s miserable debate experience against Russert, Edwards & Obama. So what we really have here is Hillary’s own pollster trying to frame tonight’s debate back around the issue of Hillary’s “inevitability.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that–just remember to take the story for what it is.