That Matt Damon Thing

English: Matt Damon at the 66th Venice International Film Festival Nederlands: Matt Damon op het 66e Venice International Film Festival Français : 66ème Festival du Cinéma de Venise (Mostra), 6ème jour (07/09/2009) Photocall avec Matt Damon et Steven Soderbergh pour le film : The Informant (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When I knocked on those doors, and made those phone calls, my pitch was, I believe this is the guy for the next eight years. And I meant it. And so I was not going to chicken out two years in.

Obama For America probably has software that can track all those people down. And they can track me down. I don't want those people to call me! As in, I thought, you said.

I believe I will support Barack Obama for one more year.

Maybe Matt never made those phone calls. He never knocked on those doors. He was in the celebrity wing of the party. And I don't mean political party.

"They don't do random, they don't make mistakes."

I Am So Glad Jon Stewart Retired

Finally Barack Obama is getting some limelight.

Trump: Nominee?

I did not think for one second Trump was going to end up the nominee. I did not think he thought. I did not think he was serious. I still have my doubts. But people are saying otherwise.

Thoughts on the state of the GOP race -- and why I've become a lot less skeptical of Trump's chances: https://t.co/apm5unqN4h

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 21, 2016

One Big Reason To Be Less Skeptical Of Trump

the textbook on Trump is that he’d be a failure along virtually every dimension that party elites normally consider when choosing a nominee: electability (Trump is extremely unpopular with general election voters); ideological reliability (like Sarah Palin, Trump’s a “maverick”); having traditional qualifications for the job; and so forth. Even if the GOP is mostly in disarray, my assumption was that it would muster whatever strength it had to try to stop Trump. ...... Rubio would seem to have the best shot. He’s easily the most conservative of the four, has the best favorability ratings and can make perhaps the best electability argument. ...... if I were ranking the four establishment candidates’ chances of eventually defeating Trump and Cruz, I’d put Rubio first .....

there’s room for near-daily momentum shifts before New Hampshire votes.

...... Things are lining up better for Trump than I would have imagined, however. It’s not his continued presence in the race that surprises me so much as the lack of a concerted effort to stop him.

All I can see (and I have not been following closely at all) is that the race might get competitive.