2.0somethings

Your morning news is late today because of last night’s game. While 2.0somethings is strongly pro-Patriots, we can appreciate that it was actually nice to have a Super Bowl that was an exciting game, and we are honored that… OH who the hell am I kidding. WE LOST TO THE GIANTS. THE GIANTS. How in God’s name did Manning make that pass. HOW. WTF. Brady was sacked 4 times. WHERE WAS OUR OFFENSIVE LINE. Ok, it is out of our system. Mostly.

Man, how about those ads.

All the papers are focused on tomorrow’s Super Tuesday primary. It is the largest primary election event in history. National polls have Senator Barack Obama in a dead heat with Senator. Hillary Clinton. Those same polls show Senator John McCain with a large lead in the Republican race. When the topic comes up at lunch today, sound authoritative by saying that national polls don’t matter because it is not a national election, you need to look at the polling numbers state-by-state. If you do that, it looks like Senator Clinton will pull off some wins tomorrow.

California, with its ungodly (241) number of primary delegates, is one of the biggest prizes in tomorrow’s primary. All of the candidates were there yesterday. The biggest news was that California’s first lady, Maria Shriver, made a surprise endorsement of Senator Obama. Shriver’s husband, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, endorsed Republican Senator John McCain a while ago. Shriver is also a member of the Kennedy family, which gives the endorsement more resonence.

New polls are showing that concern over the economy is at its highest mark in the past decade with most people thinking we are already in a recession. The economy is now considered the number one issue in the Presidential campaign. Don’t let this dissuade you from buying cool stuff we talk about. The poll doesn’t break it down by age, but 18-29 year-olds did represent about 20% of the respondents.

Google finally weighed in on Microsoft’s bid to take control of Yahoo. Google basically said that they fear for the free flow of ideas on the internet. More realistically, Google is organizing its lobbyists and working through back channels to make the deal as unpleasant as possible for Microsoft.