I Guess I Kind of Phoned It In ... Maybe?

Today's Garrison Center column pretty much just summarizes the things I've been telling y'all here at the blog about who I think will win the presidential election and why.

One reason for that is described in the column itself: Presidential elections suck all the air out of the news cycle room and leave me not with writer's block so much as writer's burnout. It just doesn't feel like anyone's going to want to read about anything else.

A second reason is that having finally given in to the temptation to go pure nuts and bolts election predictor, I really can't do that again in this cycle. I pulled that trigger, and now that chamber is empty, which means I'll have to do the harder work of finding other stuff to address. It's like intentionally running the motorcycle out of gas so that I'll have to do more walking as I keep saying I'd like to do.

A third reason is that Thursday's column ran late (into Friday), and I really wanted to get "caught up" as soon as I woke up this morning, instead of pushing today's column to Sunday and spending all next week feeling "behind."

And a fourth reason, which only occurred to me about the time I hit "publish," is that hey, most readers of Garrison Center material are not readers of this blog ... so it's new to them, and they may find it interesting.

Anyway, I hope that column works for everyone.