All politics is local, which probably explains why the national pundits didn't have much punditry to offer following the recent odd-year elections. Even though we live in a world of continuously streaming news updates, the ability to concisely analyze trends at a local level seems to be a lost art within mainstream media circles. The national newspapers and networks—which operate on the theory that everything has to mean something—tend to avoid covering city and municipal elections altogether.
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