Deep inside the epistemic closure bubbles of left and right, each camp is busy building up a narrative that is not about reality, but about telling the members of the Cult what they want to hear.<\/a> Over at places like FOX, we are getting prophesies of a Mitt Landslide. On the left, the prophecies are of Obama victory. On the whole, I have to say I think the Mitt Landslide people are more delusional, but I\u2019m not going to call it for either. Personally, my guess (and that\u2019s all it is) is that Mitt will manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory simply by virtue of having been such a cynical duplicitous liar that he managed to hand the election to a president this weak and terrible. <\/p>\nOn the other hand, I could be wrong. Dueling polls point in various directions, but reliably wrong pundits like Dick Morris (Mitt Landslide!!!!) are, like Bill Kristol, so consistently spectacularly wrong that one is tempted to simply say, \u201cIf *he\u2019s* that confident then Obama is a sure thing.\u201d But that\u2019s not really evidence. And that\u2019s the problem. The result of the fracturing of media has been that people increasingly get all their information from sources within their epistemic bubble. So if Obama wins, we will be told that the Conspiracy gave him the election. Same if Romney wins. And the various media camps will uphold that narrative within the epistemic closure bubbles of each camp. That\u2019s not healthy for a concept like the *United* States of America.<\/p>\n
For what it\u2019s worth, some bookie in Ireland keeps sending me junk mail telling me to bet on Obama. Dunno what that means\u2013beyond the fact that I have no idea what will happen tomorrow. I\u2019m half-inclined to expect a replay of 2000.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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