Justin Fareed (Finally) Concedes 24th to Salud Carbajal
Despite Campaign Zillions, Best Vote Predictor Is Partisan Registration
This just in: Justin Fareed has conceded the 24th Congressional District (CD) race to Salud Carbajal.
In other news, the Cleveland Indians acknowledge they lost the World Series, House Republicans express shock at reports the Earth is not flat, and Hillary Clinton’s handlers think maybe sending her to Georgia more often than to Wisconsin may have been a mistake.
In welcoming Justin to what the rest of us like to call “the real world” (and, devil’s advocate here, but was it really too much to expect the word “congratulations” to appear in his stand-down message?) a postmortem peek at the (almost) final numbers raises an intriguing question: Why did we bother with all the tens of millions of dollars’ worth of attacks, counterattacks, polls, ads, mailers, debates, commentaries and snooze analyses of a campaign when we could have simply transposed registration numbers onto the election results?
