During the 2008 presidential campaign Chris Matthews began to experience a psychosomatic phenomenon occurring within his own mind and body. While listening to Obama campaigning, Matthews began to feel a strange emotional sensation which he describes as a "thrill going up" his "leg." It turns out that a direct correlation exists between the level of Obama's popularity and the level of Matthews' thrill. It appears that what we might call the "Matthews' thrill-O-meter" is more reliable than any scientific opinion poll regardless of the methodology used. When, for example, Mathews experienced a full leg thrill during the campaign, Obama's popularity was at its all time high. Likewise during periods when the thrill was gone, Obama happened to be experiencing some of his worst polling numbers. In Oct. of 2010 Matthews said Obama was governing as an "elitist" who was unwilling to explain his policies to the public. Coincidentally, during that same...(Read Full Post)