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NFL fans want to see an overtime Super Bowl, or a double overtime Super Bowl, or some other history-making Super Bowl. Doesn't matter who wins or loses, as long as it’s the sort of thing that people will prattle on about for decades to come.
Instead of NFL fans, these are political fans. It doesn’t matter to Tweety or any of the rest of them who wins or loses the Democratic nomination, they want to see a brokered convention. Instead of a clear reading of the will of the voters, they desperately want to see the nomination decided in the proverbial smoke-filled room with the power brokers negotiating and announcing their decision. They want the intrigue, the power plays, the foiled attempts, the petty victories, the back-stabbing, the rancor, the bitterness and all the other hallmarks of classic tragedy. So that years from now, they can prattle on about the Democratic convention of aught eight with a secret leer that they were on the scene when history was made. Who cares if the country goes to hell, their careers can be capped with breathless reporting of what Howard promised to Hillary while Barak was secretly meeting with Teddy; doesn’t matter one whit if any of their reportage is true, as long as they. Were. There. (And you, you lowly peon, weren’t.)
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