This was perhaps unsurprising, as the election was held on a Saturday, and Mr Jindal's overwhelming popularity, not to mention his crushing financial advantage, made his victory an all-but-foregone conclusion.
But the episode encapsulates what seems to be the differing attitude of Comcast on one side, and the Federal Communications Commission and Justice Department on the other: Comcast believes the proposed merger is an all-but-foregone conclusion, while the government is saying "just hold on a minute".
Massachusetts, one of the bluest (if not "the bluest") states in the Union, will go through the motions of having a general election in about another month, but it is all but a foregone conclusion that Coakley will be the next senator from the Bay State.
This time, however – and unlike the previous four elections since the country was returned from military dictatorship to democracy in 1999 – the outcome is anything but a foregone conclusion.
It ended, as everyone knew it would, with the Obama family and America's first black president, but that foregone conclusion did not seem to affect the emotional punch.
In announcing his retirement last autumn, Mr. Koizumi anointed his son, Shinjiro, as successor — making the son's election as a fourth-generation lawmaker all but a foregone conclusion here.
Yet the result is anything but a foregone conclusion given that in 2001 the Irish, albeit on a poor turn-out, rejected the Nice treaty (they later changed their minds).
"One Chase Manhattan Plaza is among New York City's most important mid-20th-century skyscrapers," the commission said in a statement released on Tuesday, when it voted unanimously to consider the designation, making it all but a foregone conclusion.
A British historian argues that the Nazis and other authoritarian movements of wartime Europe came closer to success than is commonly acknowledged, and that the ascension of liberal democracy after 1945 was anything but a foregone conclusion.
While it is likely that a shakeup of some kind in Finmeccanica's corporate governance could emerge, the outcome of the meeting is anything but a foregone conclusion, although Italian newspapers have been abuzz about possible successors to Mr. Guarguaglini in recent days.
Wise words from a captain who knows this Ryder Cup is anything but a foregone conclusion.
