Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Kabuki politics, New Hampshire style

For someone who fundamentally believes that political campaigns are by-and-large sideshows that have little real effect on voter preferences, I am surprisingly transfixed by the last week of the campaign. Then again, that may be due to my week of broadband withdrawal at Dad’s, where I replaced my normal web surfing habits with channel-flipping between MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Maybe a return to broadband will restore my corrosive cynicism about the democratic process.

Related: the latest Toast-O-Meter™ update from Steven Taylor.