Given the time and money that went into the recent elections, it seems there ought to be a final word. A summing up. A few words to put a period on the whole business. Something, somewhere. From somebody. There was plenty of analysis – not quite “instant,” but close enough. The television people who had been explaining to us how and why the various races were going to be nail-biters and come right down to the end and finish so close you couldn’t fit a Kleenex between them … well, those same people shifted effortlessly into explaining to us why those very elections concluded in blowout victories for this or that Republican candidate.
You wonder how they could do that. Hold two antithetical thoughts in mind almost simultaneously. If you go by what F. Scott Fitzgerald had to say, then plainly just about every on-air television news personality owns an almost “first class intelligence.” And good teeth.
