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Friends, I have read every word of post-election analysis in this Sunday's New York Times, and I am here to tell you, it is dumb. It falls into two categories: the obvious, and the obviously wrong. I direct your attention, in only a cautionary way, to Adam Nagourney's article on what Democrats are thinking, or rather what Democratic centrists are thinking, since, although Nagourney does mention what centrists think liberals might be thinking, he doesn't seem to have asked the liberals themselves. (What centrists think is that the party should be more centrist.)

One exception to the gloom: The editorial on fixing elections, the latest in a series, is a good summary of a bunch of reforms that should be obvious and uncontroversial--not major overhauls like instant runoff voting or abolishing the electoral college, but no-brainers like nonpartisan election administrators.