Elitist, Ruling Class Quote Of The Day.

This would be "Quote of the Month", but we're hedging our bets - the month isn't over and Joe Biden's mouth is still out there somewhere. Anyway, over to you, Katie Couric:

That’s why Couric has spent recent weeks in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is touring what she calls “this great unwashed middle of the country” in an effort to divine the mood of the midterms. (Emphasis mine)

While my knowledge of such things is very limited (my degree is from a lowly public university in fly-over country), since when are Philadelphia, Boston and New Brunswick, New Jersey, the "middle of the country”??

Oh, wait. Here's the map Ms. Couric appears to be using:


(Steinberg, The New Yorker Magazine)

P.S. Katie, if you want to "divine the mood of the midterms", ask this lady. While she may not know all about the intricacies of Supreme Court decisions, she knows what us unwashed are thinking because, unlike you, she's one of us. And, she sure as hell knows how to read a map.