Short diary, don't want to dwell, but seriously, what the hell?
So now, evidently, Nate Silver has written about this, complete with a misguided, waste-of-time statistical analysis. Here's the non-story: there was a chance of rain, the speech was moved in-doors. If you wanted a sign that real journalism is gone in this country, the aforementioned event earlier today became a Twitter fest from nearly every major political pundit, and dominated the day's news cycle. It's bad enough that politics has been reduced to a horse-race, personality narrative during presidential elections and simplistic sports anecdotes during legislative sessions. I mean the Right is so devoid of ideas and being so thoroughly pounded right now that it makes sense that they would rapid fire piles of analytic fecal matter about to see if they can make anything distract from former President Clinton's deconstruction of their entire reason for political existence, but to watch news outlets, and now Nate Silver (!), respond to this non-sense with anything but a brief "let's all point and laugh at the last gasps of a desperate and dying movement" is depressing. Seriously, Tweets like "Democrats breathe a sigh of relief at the rain" legitimize the idea that "rain is expected so we moved the speech inside" has any political meaning or significance whatsoever. It implies that, somehow, had it not rained, it might reveal something politically damaging. It's insane! Really, all that's out there, and time is spent on THIS. Please, just...stop.