I like Reed Hundt's list of ten events that could reshape the electoral landscape between now and 2008. It's not that his ten are the only ten, or the most likely ten, or the most transformative ten, or even the most interesting ten. It's that every one of them -- including the Bears winning the Bowl -- would change everything.
It's worth reminding folks, again and again, that we're still a year or so away from Iowa. 2008 is fun to talk about, but it's not merely that there's a campaign yet to run, but the earth, between now and then, will continue to spin, and events will continue to accelerate, and the issue landscape voters will be surveying may be very different from the one prognosticators are currently assuming. An attack, a recession, a war with Iran, a massive earthquake, or any other number of calamities or confrontations could reshape the race in an instant, and all the previous year's earnest predictions will have been just so much hot air. Meanwhile, even as the media devotes endless time to a presidential race that's scarcely even begun, there's a new Congress in session, passing serious new bills, and trying to pursue a broad and substantive agenda. They deserve some attention, I think.
