After all that Super Tuesday has developed into, the lessons to learn and such, one is left to wonder do political news broadcasters really know what they are talking about? Huckabee was out, John McCain was out in the summer, Giuliani was the Republican nominee. Hillary Clinton was easily the nominee by a landslide. Obama's a good man but does not stand a chance. Sound familiar? It should. It's what the media, left and right leaning, have drilled into people's heads for the past year or so.

Polls have repeatedly showed that they are wrong nearly as much as they are right. One might even claim that polls have a negative externality. This being that they set expectations for one candidate pretty high while setting expectations for another rather low. Huckabee was not suppose to have a great night on Super Tuesday, yet he won the majority of the south. When anyone with half a brain thinks about it, it's not really that exciting. Mike Huckabee spent all his time and money in the south, if he did not do well there that would have truly been amazing. Mitt Romney did not do that badly on Tuesday. Last time I counted Romney has won eleven states altogether, granted most of them were caucus states with not many delegates up for grabs. John McCain is only really ahead so far because of winner-take-all states. Winning only twelve states to Romney's eleven. Put in those terms it was not really that big of a blow out last night. Not until you put delegates into the picture does it all of a sudden turn into a big deal. Expectations for Romney were high which is why he did "poorly." Expectations for Huckabee were low, and therefore any success was out of the ordinary for him.

The point of all of this? The news reporters writing in the newspaper, speaking on television, or talking on the radio really do not know much more than any of the rest of us. They are good for being the quickest at jumping from one bandwagon to the next. One person has what seems a smart idea and all of them say the same thing. Tuesday was not that surprising when it came to the results once a person sits down and ponders on the subject. Remember a person on the radio, in the newspaper, or on television is simply giving a theory, a thought and should not be considered concrete. They hear exactly what we hear, they see exactly what we see. Sometimes we have this surreal idea that the people on the news are the experts and we are just normal, ordinary citizens. I would reject that idea and think that as long as one were to research the issues on their own that they know just as much if not more than the media.