Playing to her base
By After linking to The Ole Perfesser for — I don’t know — the 115th time in the last two weeks, here’s Althouse, complaining briefly about the Times’ post-election wrap-up:
I love the way the Democratic victories count extra because there was a “legendarily efficient White House political machine” artificially boosting the Republican side. When the Republicans win — don’t you know? — it’s not because people actually want them to win, but because they have devious ways of jacking up the numbers. That way, if Democrats win even a modest margin, it’s a dramatic turnaround, a sea change.
I suppose it’s implicitly a commentary on the late irrelevance of Congress, but I’m wondering how Althouse is capable of arguing that Democratic control of (most likely) both houses represents a “modest” shift. She claims to have had a mere two glasses of red wine last night, so I know it’s not the booze talking. I suppose perhaps she’s an idiot.