Year Of The Underdog

This may be the only election in which each and everyone of the major candidates for President are all called the underdog by the mainstream media in the race. Hillary Clinton is the underdog because of her high negative numbers and the fact that she’s the first woman to really have a chance at winning. Barack Obama is the underdog because of his youth, attacks from the Clinton camp and his ethnicity (he is not African American, but mulatto). John Edwards is the underdog because of having to go up against the previous two underdogs as it has been said “What’s a white guy gotta do to get ahead?”
                                              
 On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani is the underdog because of his moderate views on social issues. Mitt Romney is the underdog because of his faith (and the fact that he is evil and voters are realizing it). John McCain is the underdog because of his fall from front runner (was he ever the front runner?) to running an energetic and tight budgeted campaign. Fred Thompson is the underdog because of how late he waited to get into the race (and the fact that he is boring, nice but boring). Mike Huckabee is the underdog because he talks funny, and came from little name recognition to taking on money bags Romney.  And of course for the rest of “never gonna happen” candidates from Biden to Tancredo and Gravel to Hunter they are lower than the title underdog. I’m so tired of everyone being told they won’t be elected come next November, and the way the stories will flutter and play “and to think he/she came from there to the presidency, that’s amazing”. Not really.