VDB has a post up today about why we must keep our heads down and continue working hard to elect Scudder Parker to be Vermont’s next Governor.

It’s a great read — linking Scudder’s run to the lessons learned about winning in the classic pool hall novel, the Hustler.

P.B. closes with this…

What Scudder Parker needs, more than anything, is for Democrats to come home.

If just five percent of whimsical Jim Douglas voters decide finally to throw their support to Scudder, the race will be dead even. In other words, the opportunity is here. A better one won’t come along for years. Parker has done his part, and more. He and his volunteers have raced the state from north to south a thousand times, and he’s hit Douglas on his record hard, every day for nearly a year.

But if he’s going to close the deal, he needs an entirely different sort of help.

Because it’s no longer about Scudder Parker, not really. It’s about all of us now, and our own cautious, uncommitted egos.

“You want to be a winner,” Eddie’s disgusted mentor Bert tells him, “you got to keep your head. And you got to remember that there’s a loser somewhere in you, whining at you, and you got to learn to cut his water off. Otherwise you better get a steady job.”

To which VDB says, Amen.

Yes, Amen.

And in case you doubt that Scudder is still in the game, just take a look at this polling chart from the great minds at Pollster.com.

Look closely at those thin blue and red lines that indicate the confidence intervals. And see how nicely they resolve into a point right around 45%.

Just remember, Jim Douglas needs 50% to prevent the Democratic controlled state legislature from deciding his fate.

So, let’s keep hustling.