very well articulated article....
Romney was great, not to doubt it. But it was like watching a football team win by a huge margin. You look closely at the aftermath and wonder about the margin. Was the winner THAT good, or was the loser SO BAD it made the winner look so good? In that context, it still doesn’t explain the margin we saw Wednesday night. Add “expectations” to the mix and you learn more. The news media painted Obama as “expected” to be great, Romney was painted to be “weak.” When the result was the opposite of “expected” the margin was magnified. Most if the shock of the results was the flash of backfire from too much hype from the media. We simply saw Romney at his very best and Obama at his very worst and the result is a margin of victory or defeat that will be studied for years to come. But a great deal of that perceived margin belongs to the press who also was SOUNDLY defeated Wednesday night. To me, the defeat of the press was a greater victory. It was heartening that Romney won soundly. It was more heartening that both Obama and the press were defeated by an historical margin of their own making.