Apparently Terry McAuliffe has spoken. Hillary is the winner!

Some Democrats get a kick out of Terry’s rah-rah roadshow for Hillary, which he has performed for voters in Iowa and other states in recent months. And some Democrats are decidedly turned off by his exuberance and confidence, especially those who aren’t too keen on Mrs. Clinton themselves.

Indeed, Mr. McAuliffe seriously alienated two Iowa Democrats during a drop-by at the Glenn Restaurant in Manchester, Iowa, on Wednesday. One of the Democrats, though, is a county precinct captain for Barack Obama, and another one is leaning pretty seriously toward Mr. Obama — and neither like Mrs. Clinton.

Their lack of neutrality aside, their description of some of Mr. McAuliffe’s remarks was intriguing. According to the two women — Pam Vislisel and Emma Edgington — Mr. McAuliffe argued:
Mrs. Clinton had the Democratic nomination almost sewn up;

If the election were held now, Mrs. Clinton would win Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and enough other states to win more than 350 Electoral College votes;

Mrs. Clinton was virtually moving to Iowa during the next three months to work her tail off to win the state’s first-in-the-nation nominating caucuses in January;

The Democratic nomination fight would be over after the Super-Duper Tuesday primaries on Feb. 5.

That’s it, everyone else fold up their tent and go home.

Whatever happened to humility or coutesy shown to your opponents. For that matter, how about common decency? If Mr. McAuliffe indeed said these things, it has been replaced by arrogance and no regard for not only the other candidates but for those who will be voting in the primaries.

“I’m just getting a little tired of hearing — and I hear it on the news, too — that the election is in the bag, she’s going to win, she’s the only one, it’s over,” said Ms. Vislisel, the Obama precinct captain, who said she attended the McAuliffe event because she was curious about the Clinton campaign.

“I don’t think he should be coming into Iowa and talking about she’s going to win all these states,” added Ms. Edgington, who is torn between Mr. Obama and former Senator John Edwards. “It just seemed arrogant.”

Of course, Mr. McAuliffe could not be reached for comment.

Mr. McAuliffe was traveling and not reachable for comment. His spokesperson referred questions to Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, who knows Mr. McAuliffe well and works with him.

I do not hear any other campaign on either side claiming victory in October of 2007. It will be a hard fall should it not materialize.