And she says that the big recount of last November's vote that was released last week by a media consortium "vindicated" the post-election judgments that she made.
The election court judgment leaves Oldham East and Saddleworth without an MP.
But groupthinkers march lock step in election-season judgments.
In the last century both high and low culture, in novels like "The House of Mirth" and "Absalom, Absalom!" and movies like "Stella Dallas" and "Election," leveled harsh judgment on those who aspire to too much.
As Emanuel put it the morning of the Massachusetts election, the final judgments will depend on the final results.
Students can predict a professor's end-of-semester ratings from a silent video that lasts no more than ten seconds; employers can predict interview outcomes and hiring decisions from a little more; and voters can predict the results of elections from a judgment that is made in less than a second.
Granted, a general election campaign could shuffle judgments of electability, and it may be unwise — even offensive — to cast votes in part on how people with different political philosophies, even bigots, would cast their ballots.
More than that, any election is also a judgment about the future as well as a verdict on the past.
"The British people have a right to decide their position in the world and the loser of the upcoming election might rue the judgment that there are no votes in defence".
Doubtless there are such "liberal ninnies," but it is rash of Wills to reduce Nader's support in this election to the questionable judgment that Gore's environmental policy (feeble at best) was equivalent to Bush's (disastrous).
