Prediction

Sometime after the election, media types will gather at various symposia to conduct a searing self-examination of their coverage of the presidential campaign. They will conclude that their coverage of Barack Obama was both excessive and insufficiently critical in relation to that of his main presidential rivals, John McCain and Hillary Clinton. They will attribute the bias in coverage to "the overwhelming historical significance of electing the nation's first African-American president" which, they will say, "at times superseded the application of ordinary journalistic judgment."

Having thus sanctified themselves at the altar of fairness, they will then put on their tuxedos and proceed to Obama's Inauguration.