Road To The White House

So, where are we now?

Despite my deep insights during the primaries, I managed to be wrong nearly all the time. Romney has it locked. The others are mostly gone now, including Gingrich who squandered his entire political past and future in the process.  Bachmann has endorsed, tepid though it was; Santorum apparently is not far behind, depending on the deal he can cut. Only Paul lingers, a nasal pipe-up reminder of lost and mostly irrelevant causes. 

Sure, Obama kills at the correspondents dinner, but somehow simultaneously seems to be but a past pipe dream, fading, facing lost hopes and an angry electorate in (as he put it) a man eat dog world. The polls are showing that just may be victory Mitt has tied to the roof now.

Amidst all this bad news comes ...  even more bad news.  The putrid PAC money is about to really be unleashed for the election campaign itself. You wouldn't think it possible, but the cable news pundits are applying more oil in preparation for the race. The lying liars are straining at the gates.

So naturally, instead of going into deep hiding like some Chinese dissident, come September I am going to be teaching a course on media coverage and the race to The White House. This will mean I will have to pay attention to every piece of media minutia right up until the election, and then for a month or so beyond. Obviously there is no end to my own willingness to indulge in self-inflicted pain. But I am not going to travel this road alone. Oh no. I am hoping to take you (whomever you may be) along with me. Don protective devices, you (and all of us) are you going need them.