Somebody else volunteered to watch the dang thing, so I’m off of the hook. …And isn’t that just kind of telling, huh? Because nobody’s saying Gee, I wonder if I can foist off watching the next Republican debate onto somebody else. Nope: 11 million watched the last Republican debate, which is around double the number of viewers that were watching at the same point in the 2008 and 2012 cycles. Let’s face it: the GOP is simply intrinsically more interesting than the Democrats are right now.
This, by the way, worries Democrats. Not all of them, of course; just the ones who can do elections at an arm’s length. The hardcore progressive ideologues haven’t a clue about the mess they’re in, it seems…