NICK DENTON DEBUNKS THE POST-POSTELECTION SPIN: And if that’s not a reason to love the blogosphere, I don’t know what is. Excerpt:

One prediction about the mid-terms: within a day of the results the commentators will be saying the elections demonstrate the divide in the US. A country, split down the middle. Ignore them. The precision of the results will have less to do with public opinion than the skill of modern politicians in positioning themselves close to the median of their constituencies.

Yep. Meanwhile Orrin Judd is already handicapping the 2004 elections.

If that’s too far ahead for you, there’s always Patrick Ruffini’s exit poll, which looks to be about as accurate as the VNS. . . .