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I’ve been ignoring articles about the midterm elections for months now. I mean, there just can’t be that much news. Matt Bai is about the only reporter I’ve been following regularly, but he’s an exception. There’s a piece by Michael Tomasky that is very good, though. It was written about a month ago but is still strong. It takes a slightly more macroscopic view of this election season, which is a relief since most coverage deals in thundering ideology or the kind of minutiae that no one really has time for. (I’m all about higher standards, but who told the mainstream media that your average newsreader is some kind of tenured political scientist? See, I always sound really stupid when I talk about domestic politics, but seriously, what is an average Joe like me supposed to do with something like this?) Anyway, this Tomasky piece offers a good mixture of larger narrative and specific cases — and yes, even a little hard data. Tomasky is the editor of the journal Democracy and one of the Guardian’s senior newsmen here in America.
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