Eighteen months ago I was asked about the upcoming presidential election. I responded by saying I could not foresee a scenario by which Hillary! wouldn’t win the election handily. I guess I could be forgiven for not predicting the messianic ascension of Saint Osama Obama, since he had been elected to national office only a few weeks earlier. My assessment of the electorate at Christmas 2006 was that they still revered the Clintons and would keep on voting for one of them until the cows came home. But I digress for a moment, as this piece is about the election,...