With the election over, members of the mainstream media are now claiming victory over the conservative media. Jonathan Martin of Politico writes about how insular Republicans were blindsided by the Democrats’ success last week and chalks it up to “Kaelism”–recalling the movie critic Pauline Kael’s claim in the 1972 landslide election that she only knew one Nixon voter. Here’s an excerpt:
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