The boss’s latest column for Time is now available here. A sample:
What a way to begin the fall! Perennial college-football power University of Michigan was ranked No. 5 in the preseason polls. It paid little Appalachian State University of Boone, N.C., about $400,000 to have its football team visit Ann Arbor to serve as a season-opening tune-up for the Wolverines. In a stunning upset, Appalachian State won 34-32– kicking a field goal with 26 sec. left, then blocking a Michigan field-goal attempt on the game’s last play. Lesson: the improbable sometimes happens. And what’s true in sports is true in politics. There hasn’t been a major upset in a presidential-nomination race since Jimmy Carter’s victory in 1976. We’re due. And the 2008 presidential campaign is an especially good candidate to provide a surprise. Why?
Kristol points to five factors that may make for some surprising upsets in this year’s primary and general election campaigns. Click here to read the whole thing. Also, we just posted a new piece by Matt Continetti at THE DAILY STANDARD, “Rudy Hits the Trifecta.”
