Get momentum or die

You have to sit back in awe at an election process that values momentum as high as anything else. That seems to be the media’s latest baby.

Barack Obama is now the front runner to be the Democratic nominee. Is it because he connects with the voters? No. That he is running on a campaign of unity and change? Hardly. Is it even because he has more votes? Heck, what are votes? We count delegates.

Obama is in front because he has momentum. It’s true. Hillary isn’t fighting against his policies or his speeches. She is fighting against his momentum.

It amazes me how little attention is focused on the candidate’s actual issues. Questions that you would think would be focused on, say, why one candidate feels their foreign or economic policies are superior to the other, are instead geared towards things that won’t matter come late November.

Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton’s Iraq policy, for instance, is of great interest to me. That will affect me if one of them becomes our next president. Their momentum, or lack thereof, however, will cease to matter in a few short months.

I can’t figure out this obsession the media has with momentum. Maybe because it’s an easier story to tell or write - I’m not sure. One thing that is certain, however, is that I won’t be voting based on momentum. I will be voting based on issues and policy. Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to focus on that.