It’s Election Day here in the United States.
We’re not a political comms newsletter and I’d rather undergo eye surgery with a rusty pair of pliers and a bottle of vodka than write about politics, but… ugh… It’s Election Day.
As a former journalist who worked for Big Publications (TM) for years and years, I’m hereby required to remind readers:
News outlets and pundits can’t predict the future.
Social media is full of bullshit and speculation. Bullshit and speculation don’t matter in the end.
24-hour cable television news networks—all of them from Fox News to CNN to MSNBC and all the rest—are there to sell advertising first and to broadcast the news second.
Politics isn’t a baseball game between Team Red and Team Blue where they switch every half-inning; it impacts peoples lives in real and serious way.
In the United States, we typically don’t know very much on Election Night for a whole lot of races!
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