Another Courtier Gets it Wrong

We pointed this piece of demented punditry out here.

And here's the morning after:

CHALK UP MY MUFFED ELECTION CALL TO USER ERROR, not a faulty crystal ball. Against the odds, I predicted that the GOP would retain nominal control of the House and the Senate by slim margins. In fact, the Democrats won control of both chambers, picking up at least 28 seats in the House and six in the Senate. To borrow a word coined by our commander in chief, I "misunderestimated" the anger of the American electorate, which walked into local precincts looking for punching bags and instead settled for ballot boxes.

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THE DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN THE 435-MEMBER House was narrower than the seat-count suggests. The GOP lost nationally by a mere 77,000 votes

Link.

That latter argument is of course fallacious. Reagan got a "landslide" and a "mandate" by an electoral sweep that was -- surprise! -- unsupported by the popular vote. This is what is expected of a courtier: If my guy wins like this it's awesome and significant, if the other wins in the exact same way, it's something to belittle.

But the bottom line is Big Media got it wrong because they don't care or dare to get it right. That's called a disservice. And this refusal or failure to acknowledge the majority as opposed to catering to an elite, is why so-called old media is tanking across the board: they're talking to fewer and fewer people at a time. So it's easier and easier to just disregard them; it's their loss, not ours.

This is what happens when a pundit uses an idiotic criterion and fails to filter it with any intelligence. First clue: This administration was never loved by the masses; it won electoral power by fear and, well, scummy tactics like, oh, just stealing elections. Yes, one should have pondered before November 7th, upon reviewing polls, whether maybe a significant percentage of the electorate or, I should say, likely voters had had it with the Cheney/Rove/Bush administration and maybe would be incited to, well, vote the bums -- the enablers -- out.

But no, a courtier can only parrot a party line, not think, not think that "he who spends most, wins" might not be the best criteriorn around... no, that would take thought, a dispassionate analysis, all of which conflicts with water-carrying....

Meanwhile, is Our Leader scared??