Keller @ Large: Race To The White House Far From Over
BOSTON (CBS) -- As you mull over the results from Iowa last night and look forward to what New Hampshire will say next week, it's a good idea to keep a little perspective in mind.
Presidential races tend to be like football season. There's a lot of excitement when they begin, and if a team runs off a few quick wins or losses, the fans get all excited or despondent, depending on their allegiance.
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But Super Bowl champions aren't decided in the fall, or before the holidays. The season is a long slog through months and months of hard work and unexpected events both lucky and unlucky. It's very rare that the early games dictate the final outcome.
As we patriots fans learned this season to our dismay, the unstoppable juggernaut of the late-summer and fall can, with crucial injuries, become the disappointment of late January.
The winners in Iowa, of both the actual caucus count and the expectations game, may or may not be validated by New Hampshire a week from tonight. Granite Staters have been known to specifically overturn Iowa's verdict, because…well, they're New Englanders, and sometimes we like to be counter-intuitive.
And long after Iowa and New Hampshire are forgotten, this race more likely than not will still be contested. It's been awhile since the nominations were in doubt when California votes in June, but how much more evidence do you need that this is not your ordinary election year?
We want you to stay with us here at WBZ for campaign coverage all year long, so we make you this promise--we will try to keep things in perspective, no matter how much pressure there is to lose it.
