"...Wolf Blitzer? Nope...Megyn Kelly? Nahh...Lewis Carroll? Ah, There You Go....."

Ten days until Super Tuesday.

Here's a question commonly asked, and answered, by any number of political pundits, predictors and/or prognosticators around this point in the timeline of contemporary presidential campaigns.

Where are we?

Turns out, I have an answer for you, as well.

Pretty sure it's one you're not going to get anywhere else.

Sparing you the minutiae of detailed summaries of what each and every candidate has, or has not, accomplished up to this moment, (this moment being defined as the morning after the Nevada Democratic and Republican South Dakota primaries )let me just cut to the chase.

Or shoot to it with some bullet points, as the case may be.

• voters who align, and vote, with the Democratic Party have begun to show strong signs that, while they enjoy, even admire, the romantic, even "whimsical" Quixotic nature of Bernie's quest to lead us to a more Utopian U.S of A,  they are starting to shift into practical gear, putting aside notions of happy ever after and opting for the "experience and electability" (a phrase that will surely find its way to a bumper sticker shortly) of Hillary. No matter how distrustful and/or devious she might appear to, or actually, be. 

• Republican voters, meanwhile, have shown the door to the only major candidate amongst them who could be reasonably be described as "conventional" and, having given Jeb his walking papers, put even more vim, vigor and voting booth validation behind a billionaire real estate developer/reality TV show star whose primary appeal seems to be that he's "not any of the rest of them".

So, it shakes out like this:

Democrats, who are often, and deservedly, tagged as "liberal" to one extreme or another and who are traditionally credited, or accused, as the case may be, with taking great delight in heading into the future down the road less traveled are lining up behind the candidate who is, arguably, as conventional, traditional, even "old fashioned" as it gets.

Republicans, who are often, and deservedly, tagged as "conservative" to one extreme and the other and who are traditionally credited, or accused, as the case may be, with taking great delight in heading into the future only via the road used, thus far, by their granddaddies and great granddaddies and great great granddaddies are lining up behind the candidate who is, irrefutably, the most unconventional, non-traditional, rebel rogue of an office seeker America has even seen, let alone, embraced.

With the possible exception of Pat Paulsen.

Google him. He was a hoot.

At the risk of over simplifying, here's the more colorfully worded bottom line.

Democrats...practical, pragmatic, staid and steady, avoiding any possibility of breaking any new ground whatsoever.

Republicans...wild, wacky, zany and zealous and ready to follow a set of values and ideals that make the Fox News fanatics look like a more sharply dressed Amish community.

You're going to read, and hear, a lot of predictions, even assertions, for the next few weeks/months about what the outcome of this election is going to be.

Unless you're a very high roller with a lot disposable income and a very attuned sense of luckiness around you, don't bet what you can't afford to lose.

Because of the question posed at this point by the pundits, predictors and/or prognosticators.

And this answer I'm pretty sure you're not going to get anywhere else.

Where are we?

Through the looking glass.