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I would almost feel bad about airing any kind of post-election sentiment given that the fools and reactionaries (were any of them among the handful of SB readers, that is) would presumably chortle with delight… but, let’s face it, they’re going to chortle with dismally-misguided delight anyway. Despair, fear, anger, resignation, it doesn’t matter; any reaction at all, or even the absence of any proclamation, would serve their purposes adequately. These are the people who are entrenched in an endless war on straw men, after all. They adapt information to their conceptual framework rather than adapting their conceptual framework to information.

So, fuck ‘em and I’ll write what I want.

Really, I’m just kind of… lacking in much of a reaction, anyway, at least in terms of feelings. Economics offers all kinds of valuable concepts that can be used outside of the dismal science, not least among them the idea that expected news is typically “priced in” by the market, and thus the official arrival of such news does not lead to any noticeable subsequent response.

So, I suspect, with the 2010 election. We were told what to expect for months, and it pretty much happened as predicted; am I now to wail and gnash my teeth? Throw a hissyfit, stamp my feet (or otherwise behave like a TPer)? Not feeling it, sorry.
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I can’t really come up with much to say here just now (come back here, that’s just a set-up line). There’s a lot I might comment on but it seems like it’s all just the same stuff, and the same comments. I have this sense of waiting, lately, in so many things. Waiting for new projects to start, waiting to hear about projects in-progress, waiting for events I have scheduled next week, waiting for History.com to post some new episodes of my shows, waiting for the election to be over, waiting for something to actually feel in some way resolved, even temporarily.

I mailed in my ballot, yesterday, though; at least that’s settled. So I’ll share a few notes about that, I think.

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I see that the other day, friend Paul posted an item indicating that Democrats’ polling numbers have actually turned back toward the light, of late, with of course a corresponding slump in the Republican “surge.”

Wishful thinking? Actually… probably not.

I mean, come on. It’s as though no one in America has ever lived through a general election before. How often does election coverage not only begin with months of expectations for a completely one-sided outcome, but then continue those expectations throughout the last several weeks of the campaign?

I realize that I’m going dangerously far out on a limb toward making predictions of my own, but it is not and never was likely that the “GOP, GOP, GOP” drumbeat was going to remain the only noise heard from our political punditocracy between July and November. Consider:

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