Cause here's how it works: every blogger makes a prediction. An outcome happens. Every correct blogger pats themselves on the back (publicly). Every wrong blogger links to every correct blogger with a note about how influential blogging is and how it's changing journalism, and then something about the "blogosphere," and then I complain some more about how much I hate that word. They appropriate the cachet of their peers to tide them over until they make a lucky guess themselves.

Cause after all, if Springfield is so great, how come we beat them at football nearly half the time?

Anyway, things will pick up on Monday night when Iowa is over. Then 8 more days, then we're probably done, thank goodness.