About Last Night: Elections That Mean Everything, Or Nothing, Depending

Reactions are based on expectations, expectations are based on consumed information, and modern Americans only consume what they want to.

Elections as newstainment became a “we need to release a statement about this” situation for Kentucky’s Secretary of State yesterday.

Wait, you say, the big ticket election action of 2025 involves the near 24/7 coverage of the New York City mayor’s race, Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, Prop 50 in California, and so on. What does Kentucky have to do with anything?

Welp…

“Low information voter” has been a universal pejorative for all sorts of things by the commentariat for a long while now, but at least those folks — however they are designated — managed to actually vote. The individual so ate up with news coverage that they can name three candidates for New York City mayor but cannot name three elected municipal officials that actually are on the ballot for their location are always going to be the lowest common denominator in a free people self-governing. Curated news feeds just supercharge and amplify that process.