Wisconsinites and Hawaiians are heading to the polls today. Of course we know it’s never a good thing to cover politics like a horse race. It just degrades the whole important process. That said, here they come spinning round the track, Wisconsin seeming suddenly a crucial leg in the race to the checkered flag, a key turn going into the homestretch, for both the elephants and the donkeys! Giiiitty up! Yah! Hillary wasn’t going to spend any time in dairyland, playing it down, but then changed her mind after the resounding defeats in the Potomac primaries, choosing to run some major attack ads and then getting snowed in and stumping for the cheeseheads in earnest. Now she’s invested. So exciting! Meantime, Obama is there trying to up the momentum going into those crucial Ohio and Texas primaries, where everything is supposed to be decided. In Wisconsin, he is attempting to demonstrate that he’s in control, that everything is going his way, that he’s the real contender, that he is the engineer of a lightning-fast White House express. All aboard! Get on or get left behind!

There are at least two semi-related topics need discussing from our perspective.

First is the problem of the youth. Young Americans, as we all have been told again and again, are hopeless. They will never satisfy the punditocracy. Before they were all conceived as apathetic slackers who thought The Constitution was an indie band and who got their news from Comedy Central and, even worse, the internet and who degraded themselves by stooping to listen to hip-hop! That was before. Now, something even worse, even more dangerous, than apathy has taken hold of them. Now the youth are too into politics. They are getting carried away. They have all together as one fallen under the sway of Dear Leader Obama, subscribing to an unquestioning cult of personality that spells doom for the rule of law and to the sort of rational political discourse that has been the adult norm, that has, for example we guess, characterized the Karl Rove-era campaigns and two-term presidency of George W Bush.

This sort of concern is fairly ridiculous on its face, but beyond that, there is a major contradiction at the heart of it that none of the critics has so far acknowledged. The Obama base has from the beginning included young college-educated people. The more schoolin you gots, in other words, the more likely you are to have a crush on Obama. Yet, the Obama supporters are decried by analysts and even badgered by reporters for not understanding the issues, for the way their excitement for Obama seems incommensurate with true knowledge of the facts. They are dismissed as not bothering to work their brains in the Very Serious area of policy construction, for not comprehending the complicated business of Washington leadership! The working-class Clinton base, on the other hand, is not badgered. They are imagined, based on their choice of candidate, as less susceptible to mesmerizing rhetoric, fully aware of the Very Most Seriousness of policy construction and, if not fully versed in all of Clinton’s obvious mastery of the complexities of legislative maneuvering, then at least aware enough to know that Hillary is the one best suited to grapple with all of that which is clearly above their heads. No one pesters these people about their lack of homework the way, for example, the man has tried and failed to “out” the congenial whip-smart Obama supporter in the YouTube below.

Finally, the Clintons should just climb into one large suit with three-legged pants and live like that. It would put to rest all the snide speculations adored by the pundit class about who’s really calling the shots. When Bill was president, everyone quipped “Oh, we know that Hillary is really running that show.” Now that Hillary is running for president, all the talk is about how “Bill is the one really running the campaign.”

The press! We love the press! Fact is, in the Big Game there are no analysts and there are no spectators. We are all of us players!