For the last 20+ years, we in the media have covered elections like sports contests---and we're not very good at it. Put me down for promoting the sports editors to the national political desks and let them have at it. Will be a much more interesting read.
In the meantime, I was at three debate events on the upper west side last night---one pre-debate dinner, a debate party at David's, and then at home with J for a post-mortem. We all loved Barack for his debating style--subtle, reasoned, passionate but not loud, acknowledging the strengths of the opponent, clarity about differences etc. I still fear that this is not a winning combination, but we'll see how it plays.
I am completely out of touch with how most Americans react to political events of this nature. From my perch on the upper west side, we are all fair-minded, politically correct, astute liberals. What happened to the rest of 'them' out 'there'??
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