I listened to the VP debate on the radio last night. Then afterwards I saw my RSS getting saturated with assessments. The Corner reverberated with agreement that Sarah Palin wiped the floor with Joe Biden. Over at Daily Kos the assessment was curiously inverted. No surprise. But then listening to the NPR and seeing Howard Fineman's column show up my RSS I had to wonder:
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who cares what these people think?
I mean, this is kind of like watching a basketball match, and then getting the sports reporters together 5 minutes after the game ends and having them decide who won! Why do we listen to or read these jokers? We know who "won"; polls might only correlate to a modest degree with future electoral outcomes, or only imperfectly reflect the judgment of the people, but they sure track public sentiment better than the "pundits." On a semi-related note, check out the site Culture 11. It's a new outfit which is stocked mostly with Rightish young intellectuals who don't seem to be Party-Men. Now, some of you might shudder at the thought of reading the scribblings of the Right-leaning...but you're doing that right now!
