I've been rereading my 2004 election post-mortem. I'm reasonably pleased with how well it still stands. I'm very glad to have been wrong about the Democrats lurching to the right. For the most part, though, I don't think (with the beautiful exception that is the Obama campaign) that we've actually become that much smarter about the media. We've been facing a largely incompetent, corrupt, demoralized, completely out of touch opposition. With luck1 that will continue through 2010, but I don't want this to be a repeat of the Carter administration.
1: With real luck the GOP will spend a couple cycles divided, with the corporate conservatives fighting the social conservatives for control, maybe even calving off a couple (short-lived) new parties in the process.
1: With real luck the GOP will spend a couple cycles divided, with the corporate conservatives fighting the social conservatives for control, maybe even calving off a couple (short-lived) new parties in the process.