Some people here have never bet on the horses.

[SCVDem]

You can tell by the daily posts proclaiming some slight advantage in a poll or whatnot.

These are the same who get so happy when their horse is in the lead around turn 3.

Rarely can you pick the winner out of 3 so I've learned to temper my excitement until later.

Daily poll updates are meaningless to me. We can pretty much see the 5 horses coming into turn 4.

Their positions may shift but in some order, these will cross the finish line in the lead.

That's why I don't get excited over polling.

Not yet.

[sandensea]

1. Well said. Hence the horse race metaphor.

Turn 4 will - as usual - be Super Tuesday (March 3).

That evening, we'll probably know who our nominee be - and, God willing, our next president.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Some people here do not believe this is a horse race.

[elocs]

3. No horse has a lead of any kind until they leave the starting gate.

And that won't happen until Iowa.

All the horses in the race have odds of their winning that can change before race time, but that's all they are--odds.

[MrsCoffee]

4. Unless you bet on Secretariat.

[George II]

5. I've been betting on horses since 1967, in some ways I know what you mean. But I guarantee....

....that there are no Silky Sullivans in this race (if you don't know what I mean, google it!!! )