I would like the discussion to stay in our reality. Not some reality that the author made up. I was only criticizing the first couple of lines anyway. They made it sound totally unprecedented that a Republican could win.
Then you should have pasted in the quote from the article so everyone knew what you were talking about. You only succeeded in making yourself look like a sourpuss.
And for the record, the author neither said nor intended any such thing. Read more carefully next time, and consider the source.