Tim Miller

And maybe by having them around, you can kind of shepherd this thing and muddle through into something different in the future.

But it seems to me like the writing's on the wall.

It takes us to the L.A.

mayor's race, with all due respect to the free press.

Matt Iglesias shared this screenshot this morning of their coverage of that race.

I'm just going to read for you a couple of headlines.

Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt's wife, is already L.A.

's first lady.

The revenge of the California Republicans inside Spencer Pratt's viral video machine.

Will Spencer suck on the basura?

Will L.A.

's Latinos back Pratt?

Pratt baddies revenge.

Everything is reality TV and Spencer Pratt knows it.

It goes on.

The very obsequious, fangirlish even, coverage of Spencer Pratt's mayoral campaign for the Free Press and a bunch of other center-right folks on social media bragging about how great of a campaign he ran.

It turns out, as the count continues to trickle in six days later, that he will not even make the runoff.

He's been passed by Nithya Raman, more of a...

It's kind of hard to frame her ideologically because in some ways she's left of Bass, but she also has been trying to move a line with the Yimby crowd, which you would maybe say is more to the middle of Bass.

But she now appears certain to enter the runoff with Bass.