Hardly TRP at all, yet............

[Mark Kohut]

Kirn is a novelist, as you may know, covering this election as a writer not like a journalist. I am not sending this to
start plist conversations on the election or OHIO, yet I bet, in the way we do, it might and they will be better than some journalists'. 
 
I am sending it because the very novelistic judgment of "mediocrity" reminds me like a knocking stick of TRP's take on OHIO, via 
the Swiftian savaging of Columbus in that greater and greater book: Against the Day. And, of course, Columbus has naming resonance
with the promise of America. Goodbye,Columbus (but I hope you come through for this election. Again.)
 
 The New Republic (@tnr) 
11/5/12, 8:00 AM
. at walterkirn says the fact that #Ohio, the cradle of U.S. mediocrity, gets to pick the president is terrifying bit.ly/SsPXxC Download the official Twitter app here 
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