This is a bad time to be losing momentum for any candidate. Tomorrow starts the holiday season. Even in the early states, it's going to be hard for voters to focus on caucuses and primaries which fall in early January. It's going to be very difficult for Clinton to regain momentum during December. The first caucus in Iowa is January 3rd. There's almost no time to refocus the attention of voters after the holidays but before voting actually starts.

Hillary Clinton has been the frontrunner -- and is the closest thing to an incumbent in the race for President on either side. It's hard for me to understand how anyone who doesn't support Clinton now will somehow learn something new about her that will garner their vote between now and early January. On the other hand, it seems that since late October, voters have been learning things they don't like about Hillary Clinton -- or are having doubts about her confirmed....

A lot of people are trying to figure out what it all means. We'll know for sure in early January. Clearly, there is concern over at the Clinton camp, because Hillary's guru, Mark Penn, felt it necessary to provide his spin on the polls over at the Clinton blog. (He's more optimistic than Hunt or Rasmussen).

Now, if any campaign staff is capable of turning this one around, it's Team Hillary. But, then again, Team Hillary got themselves into this mess. So unless someone turns around Team Hillary first, we may be seeing an upset.