Whoever wins the election, the media coverage of Iraq will become notciably more upbeat after the election. The reasons for this are multiple. One, reporters probably don’t have that much dour stuff left unreported-upon. Two, if Bush wins, news outlets are going to need to recultivate their sources. Three, if Kerry wins, the press will generally be in an upbeat mood and start feeling patriotic again. It’s sort of a related phenomena to the one which explains how “homelessness” was ostensibly solved within days of Clinton’s election — reappeared briefly when Gingrich was transcendent — and then reappeared again when Bush was elected.

Anyway, you heard here first. Unless you heard it elsewhere first. In which case you still heard it here, just not first.