Well Then. There You Go.

Thank you, Valley high school students, for your astute analysis. Thank you, Mercury News, for your intrepid reporting. Thank you, Google, for sifting through the vast sources of news to find me quality headlines.


The Right loves to scream about this stuff as if it’s evidence of some sort of “mainstream bias” where they have no say in the public sphere. That’s bullshit. I flipped around some AM stations this morning on the way in and it was all McCain all the time, with all the callers saying he won the thing hands down. (One interesting new spin tactic on the Right that I heard is to call Obama “That Guy” or “This Guy.”)

Everyone’s got their favorite echo chamber, and no one’s mind will be changed at this point. The true test will be when it’s over. Will the losing side have the grace to admit that the elected one is now the President of the entire country, even the disaffected and bitter half? I fear "respect for the office" will be severely diminished come January.