Partially the 24-hour news cycle we live in now and the need to make everything count every day but we the "race" being run here is to the bottom and leading us there is the news-like broadcast named fox:
What It All Means
Not actually a fan of election season, and especially not a fan of the billion instant thumbsucker pieces about What It All Means once the votes, or some of them anyway, have been counted. No matter what happens this election, it will be proof that we are a center right nation, that voters rejected Obama's extreme liberalism, and that Obama should resign and, no matter what the constitution says about such things, appoint Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Joe Lieberman to a ruling council. Turns on the tire swing for everybody!
Don't misunderstand me on this point: fox news runs the red meat train 24/7 and they continue to make their money off their narrative.
That does not mean that I have to endorse their idiocy.